"Challenging, beautifully written "--"Library Journal" Hailed by "The New Yorker" as one of the best young novelists and recipient of Germany s most prestigious literary awards, Marcel Beyer returns with a brilliantly wrought novel that brings to life both an individual and a whole world: the zoologist Ludwig Kaltenburg, loosely based on Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz, and his institute for research into animal behavior. Hermann Funk first meets Kaltenburg when still a child in Posen in the 1930s. Hermann s father, a botanist, and Kaltenburg are close friends, but a rift occurs. In 1945, fleeing the war, the Funks perish in the Dresden bombing, and Hermann finds his way to Kaltenburg s newly established institute. He becomes Kaltenburg s protege, embracing the Institute s unconventional methods. Yet parts of Kaltenburg s past life remain unclear. Was he a member of the Nazi Party? Does...
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