On his 100th birthday – Günter de Bruyn's last great narrative work.
Günter de Bruyn's last completed work takes us to historic Berlin during the Gründerzeit period and to the Spreewald landscape. It is an astonishing retelling of Wilhelm Bölsche's 1891 novel Die Mittagsgöttin (The Midday Goddess).
Günter de Bruyn masterfully evokes the atmosphere of an era between the Enlightenment and belief in spirits, progress and spiritualism. He tells of love, betrayal and the uncovering of a great deception. And the more evocatively de Bruyn delves into the past, the more one gets the feeling that the book is also about the conspiracy nonsense of our present day.
