Ralf Prange is in his mid-fifties. He is everybody’s perfect neighbour in the red-brick block of flats in Hamburg’s Barmbek-Süd. Every house has someone like him – who receives parcel deliveries for everyone, spreads rumours, and listens to tales of woe. And yet, Prange is unique in his ways. He is both the neighbourhood’s heart and soul, and a pain in the neck. Eccentric and bourgeois, a little lonely, curious, sometimes overstepping boundaries. But his heart is in the right place and he always carries out his responsibilities with the utmost diligence.
In this book, he gives an account of life in a block of flats – stories of missing pets, obnoxious odours caused by someone going on a cabbage soup diet, hiding from trick-or-treating kids, and friendships with DHL delivery guys.
