The Invisible Apple

English sample translation available
Recommended by New Books in German

Igor is a strange child. He touches things in order to understand them, draws circles on walls and sorts boxes into boxes. While he grows older, he practices melting, discovers nothingness and begins to question finiteness. He falls in love and carries a burden that is too heavy. He meets death and finally attempts to pass one hundred days without light or sound. His journey takes him to the edge of reason and changes his perception of the world forever.

In his debut novel Robert Gwisdek writes with such virtuosity and imagination about truth, madness and love, that one starts to look at life with different eyes.