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The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler’s adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to convince her of the danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter. Florian works for the Boss (the head of a local neo-Nazi gang), who has taken him under his wing and gotten him work as a graffiti cleaner in the small eastern German town of Kana. The Boss is enraged by a graffiti artist who is defacing the various monuments to…
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5 editions · 3 languages- Paperback · English · 2024New Directions · 416 pages · 9780811231534
- Other · English · 2025Profile Books Limited · 448 pages · 9781800815063
- Other · English · 2024New Directions Publishing Corporation · 512 pages · 9780811231541
- Paperback · Italian · 2022Bompiani · 496 pages · 9788830109209
- Hardcover · Hungarian · 2021Magvető · 423 pages · 9789631438956
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