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Niklas Kalf is working on a biography of the Jewish émigré Eugen Meerkaz and travels in September 2002 to New York with his wife Liz who disappears shortly after their arrival. She has been kidnapped and Kalf is blackmailed to uncover a secret about Meerkaz. Kalf’s search for the truth becomes a journey into the heart of the USA just before the Iraq war: it is at the same time the portrait of a central character who in foreign parts begins to understand what is left when nothing more is certain: the question as to what we are made of, is the question as to the foundations of love.


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Thomas Hettche, born 1964, published his first novel “Ludwig muss sterben” in 1989, followed by “Inkubation”, “Nox” and “Animationen”. Hettche has been a judge for the Bachmannpreis, writes for the FAZ and the NZZ and published the online anthology “NULL”. “Der Fall Arbogast” was published in 2001 and has since been translated into ten languages.