Nina FIVA Sonnenberg - Reading & Music

The Heart, a Wolf

A hot summer in Munich: While the whole world is at the public pool, including her friend and her child, Nele Kastner sits by her father's deathbed, waiting with him for death. And although this death is, of course, natural, everything seems like theater just before the end. In the leading role: The missing conversation. Since the father can no longer speak, Nele takes it upon herself to tell their shared story. Growing up in a lower-middle-class suburban environment in the 1980s and 1990s. About psychological fasts and crumb neuroses, about firsts and lasts, about family rituals and the things that keep one small and those that make one great. And don’t worry – you wouldn’t believe how much humor can be found in the final stories.

The magnificent debut novel by the musician and presenter known as FIVA (FM4, BR2, 3sat, ZDFkultur), who has been nominated for the Grimme Prize twice.

In an addictive sound, Nina Sonnenberg tells ruthlessly, tenderly, and with striking wit about suburban youth in the 90s, about family influences, about life and death.

"A finely and sensitively told story that takes all children of the 80s back to a childhood full of cigarette smoke and Knorr soups." - Eva Karl Faltermeier

For all readers of Joachim Meyerhoff, Giulia Becker, and Stefanie Sargnagel.