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Kana would be a quiet village lost in Thuringia were it not for the fact that its remote desolation has attracted a group of neo-Nazis. While the locals keep their distance from outsiders, Florian Herscht -- an orphan as formidable as he is harmless, at once guileless and clairvoyant -- believes he has friends on both sides; convinced that the universe is on the verge of collapse, he writes letter after letter to Angela Merkel to warn her of the impending catastrophe. Only the discovery of Bach's music allows him to find respite from his tormenting premonitions -- until unsettling wolves appear at the edge of the forest... In this sweeping narrative, written without a single full stop, the Nobel Laureate in Literature offers readers a poignant psychological portrait and a satire of universal scope -- one as mordant as it is awe-inspiring.