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»What you don‘t see« accompanies an anonymous narrator who is leaving out of the blue, into the open.
The existence of the text itself is a paradox, addressing an audience that was never supposed to exist. Written
in Nowhere, an untraceable old coal mining area close to the highway. This is where the narrator finds an
abandoned storage hall. It seems perfect for his plan to build a paper labyrinth that nobody should ever lay
eyes on. He is driven by anger and fed up with the art industry, he aims for something bigger: a work of
enormous dimensions, so big that it seems doomed to fail. But he is taking up the challenge with a fierce
enthusiasm and the knowledge that perfection can only grow and exist in complete futility. Eventually he
meets his counter figure who he calls Giacometti. Giacometti is a rugged old man from the village that had
to give way for the coal mining. He shows resistance against the course of things, keeping the village awake
by telling its story while staring into the emptiness of the mine. The two men keep a close watch, searching
for each other, but some distance always remains. Both dwell in and around the mine, becoming allies in
the protection of the place against its discovery by outsiders. But the uncertainty if the presence of one will
become too much for the other stays. This book is the literary exploration of the question how far one goes.

Author Biography

Magdalena Saiger, born 1985, studied German language and history in Berlin and
Madrid. Since 2011 she lives and works in Hamburg and has just submitted her
doctoral thesis in history to the University of Hamburg. (In 2020, she won the »Förderpreis
« for literature of the city Hamburg in the category novels. The children’s audio
play »Wolle und Sommer« was invited to many festivals, lastly to the »berliner Hörspielfestival
« 2020.)