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While the Munich Massacre by Palestinians is taking place at the Olympic Village, mysterious things are happening in the Sahara. Four men are murdered in a Hippy Commune, a suitcase of money disappears, and a detective still wet behind the ears is on the case. A confused nuclear spy, a platinum blonde American, a man with no memory - North Africa 1972...

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Enigmatic and moving Die Zeit One of the most original and stylistically impressive German writers Neue Zurcher Zeitung A great writer. A smiling, friendly, sympathetic nihilism shines through his writing Frankfurter Rundschau He remains a witty and incredibly well read artist, who creates a great work of art as he juggles on a tightrope here with violence, death, doom, forgetting and the nothingness of existence FAZ A literary thriller... a terrific novel set in the desert Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A gripping and marvelously comic thriller with a philosophical subtext Focus

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orn in 1965, Wolfgang Herrndorf originally worked as a painter and illustrator before starting to write novels. He had his literary breakthrough in 2010 withTschick,which has sold more than a million copies in Germany.By this point he was already suffering from an incurable brain tumour. He continued to write for the next few years, completingSand,which won the 2012 Leipzig Book Fair prize.He also documented his experiences of fighting his illness on a blog,Arbeit and Struktur, which was later published in book form. In 2013 he took his own life.

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