Welcome to Litsy!

(Not the tagged book)

A slim volume of short stories about Germans doing weird or mundane things, marred by narrators who repeatedly use uncomfortably racist language. I guess this is a kind of commentary on the subject matter, but it kept me from fully enjoying these stories. Judging by the amount of angry pencil scribbles in my library copy, one of my predecessors wasn‘t too fond of it either.

It‘s Klein‘s trademark hallucinatory prose and it even works in a story that starts out as mundane as this one: a sports journalist and his young colleague head out to investigate – well, what exactly? I completely feel at home in Klein‘s strange, avuncular style, which is also every character‘s mode of speaking and thinking. Great stuff.