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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025

A breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism.

'Propulsive and revelatory' - The New York Times

'A work of genius' - 5-star review, Telegraph

Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer in their east German town. He is deter