Summary
Ulrich Plenzdorf: The new woes of young V.
Seventeen-year-old Edgar Wibo died on New Year's Eve from an electric shock. His father, who abandoned the family when Edgar was five, interrogates those close to him to find out exactly what happened - and who his son really was. To help readers, the otherworldly Edgar himself interrupts his father's conversations with his mother, his best friend Willie, and with Charlie, the girl Edgar was unhappily in love with, to give us his version of events.
Absurd, hilarious and touching, this cult bestseller is both a satire of life in East Germany and a hymn to youthful freedom.
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