Tender and melancholic, sometimes cool, sometimes fierce: Selim Özdogan strikes the tone of our times.

All of a sudden, Latifa smells of freshly roasted coffee beans and just can’t get it off her skin. A young Indian philologist cracks the IT-code to the digital legacy of a famous and much celebrated author while being observed by a rabbit inside the author’s son’s head. Aliens plant sunflowers into rubber boots which are arranged to look like a swastika. The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin finally gets to tell the tale from his point of view. Hillalum meets the God-machine. Şeyda is diagnosed with migration background but turns out to handle her diagnosis in a completely different way than expected.

Virtuously juggling with various narrative roles, Selim Özdogan displays his large scope of style. His often melancholic view finds beauty in everyday details. He skilfully goes against the odds and agains the expected. His small allusions to mafia movies, pop music and beat-literature make his prose the most pleasurable read.