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?

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hardcover
  • Release: 18.10.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-00341-8
  • 96 Pages
  • Author: Lukas Bärfuss

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Lukas Bärfuss

Lukas Bärfuss , born in 1971 in Thun, Switzerland, is a dramatist, novelist and pugnacious publicist. Previously he has worked as a tobacco grower, forklift driver, welder and gardener. His plays are performed around the world; his novels have been translated into 20 languages. Lukas Bärfuss is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and lives in Zurich. He has received a number of awards including the Berlin Literature Prize, the Swiss Book Prize and the Georg Büchner Prize.