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Late summer 1989, holidays on Lake Balaton – suddenly, Hungary opens its border, and the forbidden West with all its temptations is within reach. Adam is a man whom women love. And Adam loves beautiful women. Once they wear the clothes he makes, he desires them all. Apart from that, he loves Evelyn who catches him one day in flagrante with another. Evelyn drives off to Hungary and Lake Balaton with a friend and the friend's cousin, instead of with Adam. He jumps in his old Wartburg to follow the red Passat. Playing on the biblical myth of Adam and Eve, Ingo Schulze has produced a superb tragicomedy.


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Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962, studied in Jena and worked in Altenburg as a drama advisor and newspaper editor. He has lived in Berlin since 1993. He received the Berliner Literaturpreis and Johannes-Bobrowski-Medaille for "Simple Stories" (1998). He won this year's Premio Grinzane Cavour for his great novel "Neue Leben", published in 2005. His story collection "Handy" was awarded the 2007 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Ingo Schulze is a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtkunst.