Off-the-wall Christmas stories, none of them written by Antje Rávic Strubel? Written instead by someone unknown, using her name? It’s true that the author writes her brother a Christmas story every year, but those are certainly not these loopily irreverent, adventurously abstruse stories written by some stranger. So, amidst all of these unholy Christmas personas and paraphernalia, who’s inventing whom here?
“It’s about the madness of Christmas and the madness of being an author.” Benjamin Schotz, Die Welt
