FATHER'S BOX – A Story About Inheriting

• Remembering his dead father, a reflection about what inheritance means, a militant appeal to break out of the trap of thought and behaviour that has no alternative.
• Lukas Bärfuss' previous novels were translated into 20 languages.
• The author was awarded a.o. the Berlin Literature Prize, Swiss Book Prize and the Georg Büchner Prize. 

Lukas Bärfuss rejected his inheritance from his father: primarily debts. But he has already passed on his father’s distinctive nose to his own son. We cannot escape our genes, but what about an inheritance law that targets personal assets that, despite being barely one hundred years old, seems to us like a natural law? What about the responsibility beyond the family bond, what about the share of future generations whose fate we decide with what we leave them, our inheritance, our rubbish? We won’t find any answers as long as policymakers ignore all the evidence that would lead us to ask the important questions in the first place: do we want to continue living the way we have been? And if not: then how?