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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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Editions

5 editions · 3 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2024
    New Directions · 416 pages · 9780811231534
  • Other · English · 2025
    Profile Books Limited · 448 pages · 9781800815063
  • Other · English · 2024
    New Directions Publishing Corporation · 512 pages · 9780811231541
  • Paperback · Italian · 2022
    Bompiani · 496 pages · 9788830109209
  • Hardcover · Hungarian · 2021
    Magvető · 423 pages · 9789631438956
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