Description
In And Nothing Ever Ends, two artists from two different centuries travel through linguistic and cultural spaces.
Experiences of foreignness, identity, life as an artist, and lots of politics are the major themes of the novel, in which the two storylines mirror each other.
First, Tomer Gardi, written in German, sends himself as a literary character with the talking German shepherd Rex and the elf king or even Goethe’s Erlkönig at his side on a fantastic-adventurous odyssey, slapstick, funny and with many subliminal pinpricks. In the second part of the novel, translated from Hebrew, we follow the 19th century Indonesian painter Raden Saleh from Java through Europe and back to Asia—a historical novel and at the same time a reflection of our times.
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Reviews
Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2022:
»First a Jewish author is chased through a German forest. Then the life of Raden Saleh is told. In different, subtly interrelated styles and genres, it is about the question of freedom. Fireworks!«, said the jury in its statement.
»The question this book asks is ›How does one do away with the cultural corsets in which one is constrained?‹ And Tomer Gardi demonstrates that to us in very different, very entertaining ways.« (Insa Wilke, SWR)
»Tomer Gardi—a writer between worlds, who also sends his characters off in search of a place in the world. What seems so light-footed is ingeniously knitted. An effervescent, breathless novel that negotiates the big questions of identity and home.« (Juliane Bergmann, NDR)
»One can confidently say that no author is currently stirring up German literature in such a way … You will laugh out loud, cringe, enjoy and run along as soon as the author has you by the scruff of the neck.« (Sophie Albers Ben Chamo, Jüdische Allgemeine)
Author Biography
Tomer Gardi, born in 1974 in Kibbuz Dan in Galiläa, studied literature and educational science in Tel Aviv and Berlin. He was editor of the journal »Sedek: A Journal on the Ongoing Nakba«, a project of the Isreali-Jewish initiative Zochrot that aims to make the memory of the expulsion of the Palestinians part of public debate. Tomer Gardi’s literary essay Stein, Papier was published in 2011. Broken German is Tomer Gardis first novel written in German. Otherwise You’ll Get Your Money Back is his second novel, published in 2019. With his novel And nothing never ends he won the Prize of the Leipzig Bookfair 2022.
Literaturverlag Droschl GmbH
Droschl is publishing international authors like Lydia Davis, Oksana Sabuschko, Georgi Gospodinov or Julien Gracq as well as German writing authors like Iris Hanika, Ilma Rakusa, Thomas Stangl, Monique Schwitter, Thomas Jonigk or Werner Schwab. The names speak for themselves, they stand for an attitude that does not consider literature as representation but as protest and comment from the fringe. We want to address the reader’s curiosity, those who want to discover something, who focus on words, whose one great love is language, many languages, the innumerable manners of speech.
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- Publisher Literaturverlag Droschl
- Publication Date June 2021
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783990590928
- Publication Country or regionAustria
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 23 EUR
- Pages256
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEine runde Sache
- Original Language AuthorsGerman/Hebrew
- Copyright Year2021
- Dimensions21x13 cm
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