Tuesday, 11/12/2024
at 7:00 PM



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»The Thin Gods« – Aris Fioretos on an aging musician between bravado and longing for love
Ache Middler, a rock musician in his sixties, lives a reclusive life in Berlin when he receives a letter from a dying woman. Years earlier, they spent a night together. Now, she asks him to tell their shared daughter his story. Ache reflects on his childhood in Delaware and his alcoholic mother, on his rise in the glamorously torn New York of the 1970s, on the eternal money worries – and on the three women who shaped him. For decades, »The Thin Gods« follows the contrasts of a life: between daring masculinity and vulnerability, between independence and love. A novel that pulsates in the intoxication of the underground, electrifying and casually melancholic at the same time.

The event will be moderated by Karin Hoff (CAU Kiel).

Aris Fioretos, born in 1960 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish author of Greek-Austrian descent. He has received numerous awards for his translations – he translated works by Paul Auster, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jan Wagner into Swedish – as well as for his own work; in spring 2024, he will deliver the Poetics Lectures in Frankfurt am Main. The author lives in Berlin and Stockholm.

Photo: © Sara MacKey

Doors open: 6:30 PM

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