“I dumped both of them by post some time later but my
recollections are hazy. It was silly teenage stuff.”
“Teenage stuff is never silly, you pillock, it’s dead serious. Yours
is vaguely surreal, however, I must admit.”

Why do so many Luxembourgers feel ashamed of their
youth as soon as they have finished grammar school?
Then everything is alleged to have been “childish”. But
is that really true?
Joé grows up in the 1970s and ’80s in the South of
Luxembourg. He plays in an incredibly cool band,
his parents haven’t really got over the war yet, and the
country is too small for him. When he meets Beth,
everything
changes.
Magnetosaurus Nostalgodon tells the story of someone
trying to grow up without missing his childhood. A
coming-of-age novel full of humour, tragedy and nostalgia.