KARMA

Brandenburg, autumn 2033. A ceremonial event celebrates the retirement of the leading figures of Omen SE, Germany's most valuable technology company. For them, a new era of leisure begins, "the time of melons and figs". Glass smart houses stand ready in the company's own settlement by Lake Aue. There, they find themselves and settle into peace. But over the end moraines, a distant storm brews on the horizon ...

Alexander Schimmelbusch takes us to a place in the near future where exhausted educated citizens and followers of new dictatorships are left alone with their anger and longing, facing invasive species and technologies. Karma is a futuristic vision, a social novel that aims to explore the concept of "the good life". But what is good? Who decides, and who judges whom? And what are the consequences of attraction and contempt on all sides?

"The coldest and most elegant language in contemporary German literature." Die Welt

"Schimmelbusch has written an insanely funny, wicked, and politically astute novel about collapse and renewal." Der Spiegel