by Bodo Kirchhoff · Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596172023
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«Wo das Meer beginnt» is the novel by Bodo Kirchhoff, published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH in paperback (307 pages, in German).
Viktor Haberland, at thirty, prepares an event in Lisbon for a German cultural institute. The unexpected registration of Tizia, a former schoolmate, confronts him with his youth and with conversations with an old teacher. The narrative addresses love and desire, the tension between body and language, and the transgression of limits.
It belongs to the Fischer Taschenbücher collection (no. 17202) and was originally published in 2004; this edition is from 2007.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction interested in German-language literature.
Bodo Kirchhoff is a German writer and novelist. He was born in Hamburg before moving with his family to Kirchzarten in the Black Forest in 1955, which he describes as a culture shock. In addition to writing literary fiction, he has worked on various projects for German television, such as long-runner Tatort, and has written movie screenplays. One of his best-known novels is Infanta (1990), which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2016, his novel, which features an African migrant in Italy, Encounter won the German Book Prize.
