Eleven days in Berlin

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Eleven Days in Berlin (Swedish title: Elva dagar i Berlin ) is a novel by the Swedish writer Håkan Nesser , which was published in 2015 in both Swedish and German translation.

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Since a swimming accident as a child, the now grown-up Arne Murberg is special. His head works more slowly than that of other people, but Arne has learned a few tricks that those around him have no idea. If there are any problems, he regularly consults with Perry Mason , of whom he has seen many videos that he knows almost by heart. Together with his father, his uncle and his aunt he runs a tobacco shop in a small Swedish town. He doesn't know his mother, he had been told for a long time that she was dead. On his deathbed, his father, who is suffering from cancer, told Arne the truth that his mother disappeared with a troubador to Berlin many years ago . There he should look for her, his father gives him this last assignment.

After thorough preparation by his uncle, Arne sets off for Berlin. There he meets the other two main characters of the novel, the mad scientist Anatolis Litvinas and the wheelchair- driving Scandinavian and librarian Beate Bittner .

Litvinas , who has a three-time doctorate, tends to experiment with world change, which have already resulted in catastrophes several times and which have already brought him long stays in psychiatry . He lost his wife on a Svalbard expedition, allegedly she was eaten by a polar bear . So the official version. Litvinas knows better, but doesn't talk about it: the very second the first plane crashed into one of New York's twin skyscrapers on September 11, 2001, she disappeared through a crack in the structure of time. After his discharge from the clinic, he plans his next, decisive, experiment in Berlin. Arne is chosen by him as a necessary assistant, only his yellow shoes disturb Litvinas .

The pastor's daughter Beate Rittner , who was very weak from birth, comes from a village between Rendsburg and Kiel , but spends many years as a child with her grandfather in the nearby Schwedeneck on the Eckernförde Bay . After his death, she is so weak that she can only move around in a wheelchair. She now works as a librarian in Berlin. In a restaurant near the Zoo train station , she meets Arne, who is already involved in mysterious events, including time travel . The dramatic continuation of these processes is handled by both of them together.

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