THE POSSIBILITY OF ORDER

  • The hardware store – a microcosm where our society is told in a literary, original, and entertaining way.

Levin Watermeyer’s life revolves around the hardware store he’s worked at for years, where he feels he knows all his colleagues and their quirks, intrigues, and affairs. He’s content. But when the store plans to expand, swallowing competitors, and the mysterious Pina Sommerfeldt enters the picture with her own agenda, Watermeyer’s world starts to unravel. He begins questioning everything, especially when Pina targets the workaholic boss, Jan Seehafer. As the pressure mounts and environmentalists threaten to halt expansion due to a rare frog species on the site, the situation teeters on the edge of chaos.

Denis Pfabe offers a gripping and original portrayal of modern life – a microcosm of German society, capturing the commercialization, consumption culture, and the scaling up of business models. A sharp, literary, and darkly entertaining exploration of our times.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Berlin
  • Release: 27.01.2026
  • ISBN: 978-3-7371-0231-5
  • 336 Pages
  • Author: Denis Pfabe

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Denis Pfabe

Denis Pfabe , born in 1986 in Bonn, is a trained retail merchant and studied media communication and journalism in Cologne. He is a graduate of the Bavarian Academy of Writing, was a fellow at the Prose Writers' Workshop at the Literary Colloquium Berlin, and received a work grant from the Kunststiftung NRW. Pfabe lives in Bonn and works three days a week driving a forklift at a hardware store. His highly praised debut novel Der Tag endet mit dem Licht was published in 2018, followed by Simonelli in 2021. In 2024, he received the Deutschlandfunk Prize at the 48th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt.