One house, 11 people, 65 emotions: the third volume in Tim Krohn’s addictive series is about rebuilding and working on utopias.
As ever, Tim Krohn reflects the big world out there in the small one of his co-op building on Röntgenstrasse in Zurich. The actress Selina May dreams of moving to Berlin to be with her first love. The scientific curiosity of Moritz Schneuwly, a risk-loving student, drives him to do one experiment after another. Mary, his love, is back from New York, but no sooner leaves again for Amsterdam to start her new life as a student there. Pit from the second floor has dropped out of university and is fascinated by his friend Petzi’s fun-loving mother, who for her part is in the process of reinventing her life and takes him along on a trip to Greece. For old Erich Wyss, spring is causing some strange buds to sprout, and Julia Sommer finds herself needing to fight hard not only for her “little garden” but suddenly also for her very life.
Tim Krohn once again lets his characters and readers run the whole gamut of emotions. And of course Julia Sommer isn’t the only one gardening – there’s plenty of sowing, weeding, pruning and cultivating of all kinds happening in this volume – of plants on windowsills, balconies and in gardens, and of thoughts and life plans in the heads of the book’s many characters.
