THIS SIDE OF THE VAN-ALLEN-BELT

An acquaintance between two students of fine art develops into a three-way relationship that the participants don’t acknowledge and that comes to an inglorious end on a motorway over the Alps. A nurse embezzles his patient’s money and flees to Asia, finally ending up at a police station in a Japanese fishing village. A thirtysomething and a spoiled young adolescent chat about the cosmos while standing on a balcony. Herrndorf’s characters display an enormous sense of loss, which is matched by both the author’s skill and the book’s entertainment value.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 02.02.2009
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-24777-4
  • 192 Pages
  • Author: Wolfgang Herrndorf

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Wolfgang Herrndorf

Wolfgang Herrndorf, born in Hamburg in 1965, studied art, contributed drawings to Titanic amongst other publications, and began to write relatively late in his career. In 2002 his debut novel, Velvet Thunder, was published, for which Joachim Lottmann declared him to be a ‘Doyen of Pop Literature’. He was awarded with the Deutscher Erzählerpreis for On this Side of the Van Allen Belt in 2008 and (for his book Tschick) with the Clemens Brentano Preis (2011), the Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis (2011) and the Hans-Fallada-Preis (2012).
Wolfgang Herrndorf died on August 26th, 2013 in Berlin.