by Hansjörg Martin · Bertolsmann · tapa dura · ISBN 9783570032046
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«Gegen den Wind» is the novel by Hansjörg Martin, in hardcover edition (284 pages, in German).
A chemical consortium wants to build a supposedly ecological factory in the Seester marsh. The farmers give up their land, but pollution kills the fish and ruins the harvest due to cadmium. Elisabeth, the mayor's daughter, leads the resistance; when the chemical weapons experiments become known, the press joins the protests.
The author, Hansjörg Martin (1920-1999), also wrote crime novels; the novel was originally published in 1984.
For readers of novels with social and ecological background and for those who want to discover German narrative of the eighties.
