The drive
The ride is a 2007 novel by Sibylle Berg . For the creation of the book, the author traveled to the locations of the plot. The book has 79 chapters and was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne ( ISBN 978-3462039122 )
content
The novel describes the experiences of travelers around the globe in short episodes. In the excerpts, a picture of suffering and misery in the distance is described above all. The protagonists searched for the distance and longed for their home in the course of the episode. Among other things, the action takes place in Bombay , Reykjavík , Hong Kong , the Hamptons and Berlin, but also in the slums of Bombay and the Kyrgyz wasteland. Several episodes are built around the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean .
style
The protagonists of the episodes can be found in recurring locations around the world. Often they are linked in wild succession and meet each other, visit the same places or get to know the same people.
Reviews
- Kristina Maidt-Zinke writes in the Süddeutsche, among other things, that Sibylle Berg gave up the “pseudo-infantile perspective” of her last book in order to hate again. That has bite and sharpness again.
- Rolf-Bernhard Essig von der Zeit thinks that the author is layering human fate upon human fate in a manner reminiscent of the episode film and moves through known and unknown regions of the world ... While the author gives her disillusioning insights into the humanlessness, into that everywhere and always "emotional and material misery" to be found, he explains, attests to her many successful language images and a very dynamic narrative flow.