by Niklas Maak · tapa dura · ISBN 9783446235588
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«Fahrtenbuch: Roman eines Autos» is the novel by Niklas Maak, published in 2011 by Hanser, Carl GmbH + Co. in hardback and in German.
A 1971 Mercedes 350 SL, with 350,000 kilometres and ten owners, lies in a scrapyard. Niklas Maak reconstructs the lives of those ten drivers —a doctor, an Italian immigrant, a student, a young Turk, a ruined executive— and, with them, four decades of the Federal Republic of Germany: a society with its dreams, rites and abysses.
The first edition was published on 29 August 2011. The Library of Congress classification is PT2713.A25 F34 2011.
For readers of contemporary German fiction who enjoy choral stories centred on an object and several generations.
