Enjoy the beautiful weather and just switch off – the best way to do this is with the right book between your fingers.
Summer is here. Time to relax and switch off. Good books help with that.
The Handelsblatt recommends eight novels – funny, exciting, topical. And ideal for the beach or a warm evening on the balcony.
Science Fiction: The system takes over
Beam me up, Scotty! What was normal in the sci-fi classic Star Trek excited us as kids. And “The Apparatus” in JO Morgan’s work of the same name does just that.
Teleportation is the technical term. It takes people from one place to another at lightning speed. Saved a lot of time, you want to cheer. But in the analog world of novels without the Internet, the travel devices that look like bulky refrigerators throw familiar life upside down.
The dystopia raises big questions: what is true, what is untrue, what is real, what is fake, who is powerful, who is powerless, free and unfree, who surrenders to the system, who resists?
JO Morgan: The apparatus.
Translation: Jan Schoenherr.
Rowohlt publishers
Hamburg 2023
240 pages
24 euros
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