From a place that should have been the future
After years, Heather returns to Colchis. To the sanatorium where she was evacuated as a teenager - through time travel. Heather, like many other evacuees, has since suffered from phantom memories and the pain of loneliness, having left behind a life and a future she barely knew. She hopes to find inner peace, but Colchis has also changed. The sanatorium has fallen into disrepair, the remaining residents have retreated into their own world. Matthias, evacuated from the time of the Peasant Wars, nevertheless becomes a confidant for Heather, showing her that to surrender means the end of humanity.
Franz Friedrich virtuously tells of a future in which all the missed opportunities of the past are present. But also of friendship, community and the insatiable desire for change.
"an incredible novel, fantastically told" - Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Miriam Zeh
"An enormous amount is touched on under the overarching theme of society and community, without appearing overloaded." - Frankfurter Rundschau, Stefan Michalzik
"an ambivalent but strangely comforting utopia." - Kulturnews, Carsten Schrader
"Friedrich's concept of literature is based on opening up worlds of possibility in language that is as quiet as it is beautiful" Deutschlandfunk Büchermarkt, Christoph Schröder
"Exceptional novel about the future with profoundly thought-provoking ideas" - Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Oliver Nowack
