Das Beste, was wir hatten

Synopsis of Das Beste, was wir hatten

«Das Beste, was wir hatten» is the novel by Jochen Schimmang, published by Edition Nautilus in hardback (320 pages, in German).

The novel follows Leo Münks, an agent of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and Gregor Korff, a ministerial adviser, two men settled in the Federal Republic of Bonn whose lives are destabilised after reunification. Gregor discovers that the woman who left him in the 1980s was a Stasi mole, while Leo becomes involved in an old Berlin friend's plan to blow up a monument to Germania.

Published in 2009 by Edition Nautilus, it is a novel in German of 320 pages. Winner of the Rheingau Literature Prize in 2010.

For readers of contemporary German fiction and stories about reunification, life in the Federal Republic of Bonn and the legacy of the Stasi.