Over night, the Atlantic Ocean has retreated from the coast of Florida, leaving behind a wasteland. Cruise liners are rusting in the sand off Miami, hotels stand empty, the harbour is deserted and even the glamorous advertising industry, once broadcasting ceaselessly, has shut down completely. A city is searching for an anchor in a reeling reality. Inmidst all this, we encounter a struggling working-class family, an overly ambitious indie game programmer, a young sociologist and an e-sports team from Wuppertal. Funny and sad, gloomy and labyrinthine: “Miami Punk” is a novel about the meaning of work, about authority and power and about lonely nights in front of the computer screen.
Miami Punk is the provisional highlight of the new, equally ironic and political apocalyptic literature. -- Richard Kämmerlings ― Die Welt
Miami Punk by Juan S. Guse is one of the most unusual books on the German market – and has what it takes to become a cult novel. -- Marten Hahn ― Welt online
[...] the craziest German book of the year [...] a [...] power novel so crazy [...] that one would never have believed it possible in contemporary German-language literature. -- Lars Weisbrod ― Die Zeit
Miami Punk is a novel that is as megalomaniacal as it is ingenious, posing new questions about the state of our lives and working world. -- Anna Fastabend ― Spiegel Online
[…] a wonderfully hard-to-digest novel […] This makes Miami Punk one of the most unusual books currently on the German market. A work with magical qualities. -- Marten Hahn ― Deutschlandfunk
Juan S. Guse uses this rather unusual reference space of trash, nerd culture and pop to deal with topics such as climate change, flight and capitalism. […] -- Daniel Grabner ― Österreichischer Rundfunk
In his brilliant second novel [...] Juan S. Guse takes up the apocalyptic scenario of our present and at the same time turns it into the absurd [...] a masterfully interwoven structure. -- Anja Kümmel ― ZEITonline
In any case, it would be a mistake to dismiss this book as nerd culture [...] Miami Punk is first and foremost a social novel about the 21st century [...] -- Felix Stephan ― Süddeutsche Zeitung
as brutal, successful and unexpected as a snippet of the music genre from which the novel takes half its name. -- Florian Balke ― Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
A dark storm of symbols, a sociologically informed projection of society, literature from the future. -- Felix Stephan ― Süddeutsche Zeitung
