How to lose yourself and find everything in Colombia
March 2020, a secluded lodge in the Colombian jungle village of Soledad. Alena, a photographer from Hamburg, only wants to stay for a few days after a painful break-up. But she falls for the mystical charm of the place and the stories told by Rainer, the German owner of the lodge, whose life story has little to do with Alena's first impressions of this strange and charismatic man: Always considered too soft in his childhood, he rebels against stuffy post-war Germany in the 1960s, works as a salesman for counterfeit jeans and, after an odyssey through Latin America, ends up in Colombia, where he buys a piece of land from a high-ranking drug dealer to build his lodge out of nothing.
As in his highly acclaimed Berlin novel Arbeit, Thorsten Nagelschmidt's Soledad tells with impressive empathy and humor of people who at first glance appear to be very different, but who are closer to each other in their desire for recognition and belonging than they initially thought.
"This shows above all what a great narrator Thorsten Nagelschmidt is. [...] A cool, cosmopolitan page-turner" - radioeins Favorit Buch
"very captivating, gripping read" - Away from life
"A sad book that will stay with you for a very long time." - Buchkultur, Andreas Knabl
"A suspenseful novel that skilfully links different generations and the realities of their lives." - Galore, Anna Chiara Doil
"grandiosely composed" - ver.di publik, Christian Baron
