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The chaos of life, dramas with women and the strange duplicity of events: Dad tells it all. The doctor was already famous from Irene Dische’s bestseller Granny’s True Confessions (Grossmama packt aus). He first appears in this brilliant story in 1990, in which his daughter puts him into an old people’s home. “Irene Dische takes just 50 pages to tell a life story covering a century. Only Kafka could do it in less.” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) The doctor always knew how to make a home for himself and his family, in spite of all the needling by “bandits” in a malicious century. First he lived on the Danube, then the Hudson. Now he has to leave his home and exchange it for another. The Jewish Nobel Prizewinner for chemistry looks back: on his women – and he had many – such as Zescha, now long dead, which the doctor occasionally forgets, or Gretel, his ex-wife, who doesn’t want to have anything more to do with him. Then there’s the pretty daughter whom the doctor, suffering from “ulcheimers”, the ulcer of the Heimat, keeps confusing with other women and who is to take him to his new home. The taxi is waiting.
About the author:
Irene Dische, born in New York, lives in Berlin and Rhinebeck. In 2000 Hoffmann und Campe published The Job (Ein Job), in 2005 the bestseller Granny’s true Confessions (Grossmama packt aus), in 2007 Loves (Lieben) and the new edition of her first book, Pious Lies (Fromme Lügen). |
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