This new collection of stories by the great reporter and cosmopolitan Andreas Altmann contains only unpublished texts. In his inimitable language, he tells of formative encounters and special experiences, reflects on being in the world and the abysses of human existence and reports on extraordinary places, impressive characters and their fates. He does not spare the everyday absurdities of social life. His eye for the small and very large aspects of the human soul and his reflections on them make these texts something very special.

Andreas Altmann is one of Germany's best-known travel reporters and has been awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize, the Seume Literature Prize and the Travel Book Prize, among others. His most recent bestsellers are "Gebrauchsanweisung für das Leben", "Leben in allen Himmelsrichtungen" and "Gebrauchsanweisung für Heimat". He lives in Paris.

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