Katja Lange-Müller "Drehtür"
Book Premiere
The eagerly awaited new novel by Katja Lange-Müller takes up a current, existential topic: helping and its risks. It focuses on Asta, who, after 22 years in the service of international relief organisations, is stranded at the Munich airport. A victim of mobbing from her co-workers during her last position at a hospital ward in Nicaragua, she doesn’t know how to proceed. And she only feels good when she is needed. While Asta smokes and thinks about her future next to a revolving door, she encounters people whom she believes she knows from her past. With every cigarette she immerses herself more deeply into her past ...