Johann Scheerer, UNCANNILY CLOSE

Piper - Hardcover - January 2021 - 331 pages

This moving Coming-of-Age novel is a revelation: never before has the desire for freedom and normality been written about in such a self-ironic and comical way.
Nothing is the same anymore at home since the abduction of the father but nobody talks about it. Johann cannot take a step outside without announcing it beforehand. As soon as he is outside, he is under surveillance. But it is precisely this surveillance that he has to keep from friends, at school, side jobs, dates and parties. He even seems to succeed in this, he finds a girlfriend, rehearses with his band and gets a record deal. But he constantly gets into grotesque and embarrassing situations because he is forced to be dishonest. The excuses, half-truths and white lies threaten to overwhelm him. Can he escape this life of lies?

• The sequel of "We are then next of kin"

• "Beyond the autobiographical story, Johann Scheerer also tells a universal one: he tells what it means to be 'marked' as a relative of the victim of a crime. And that is very impressive."- Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

• "How the 13-year-old searches for his approach to people and the world in an already complicated phase of life between security guards, band rehearsals and driver safety training, impresses with irony and self-criticism - and incidentally brings the 90s back to life." - Stern

• Straight into the SPIEGEL Best Seller list upon publication