by Sibylle Berg · Hanser · tapa dura · ISBN 9783446233881
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«Der Mann schläft» is the novel by Sibylle Berg, published by Hanser in hardback (308 pages, in German).
The protagonist believes she has found happiness in a man who reciprocates her feelings, but that certainty shatters during a trip to China when he disappears. With melancholic and acerbic images, Sibylle Berg portrays a world where love has become a marketing product and where one can barely survive in the company of another.
The novel was published in German in 2009 and was longlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis that year.
For readers of contemporary German fiction and love stories with an ironic, melancholic, and unconventional tone.
Sibylle Berg is a German-Swiss contemporary author, playwright, and member of the European Parliament. They write novels, essays, short fiction, plays, radio plays, and columns. Their 18 books have been translated into 30 languages. They have won numerous awards, including the Thüringer Literaturpreis, the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis, and the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis. They have become an iconic figure in German alternative sub-cultures, gaining a large fan base among the LGBT community and the European artistic communities. They live in Switzerland and Israel. Their 2019 work GRM. Brainfuck, a science fiction novel set in a dystopian near future won the Swiss Book Prize and was noticed by The Washington Post. It reached fourth place on the Spiegel Bestseller list, with the sequel, RCE, entering the list as highest entry of the week at place 14. On 1 March 2023 Berg was invited as special guest to open the high-profile Elevate Festival in Graz, Austria.
