Noah (novel)

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Noah a conspiracy novel and Ökothriller is the writer Sebastian Fitzek from the year 2013 . It is the eleventh work by the author and the first book by him to be published by Bastei-Lübbe Verlag . In contrast to his previous psychological thrillers , Fitzek takes up topics from the areas of global ecological catastrophes caused by scarcity of resources.

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The plot of the novel is based on a worldwide conspiracy and takes place in New York City , Rome , Amsterdam , Manila, London and Berlin . The first setting is Manila in the Philippines and describes the fate of a family of “scavengers” (garbage collectors) who have to fight for their survival every day on the “Smokey Mountain” landfill. The eldest son (seven years old) takes on the role of breadwinner after the sudden death of the father. The boy spends his time running down the dump and looking for recyclable materials that can still be sold. Meanwhile, the mother devotedly cares for her sick baby. You have to fight against starvation every day. The story of the Filipino family, which shows the other side of the modern affluent society, runs through the novel in several episodes. Later the garbage dump is encircled by the Philippine military and the “scavengers” have to face a deadly disease on their own. The second narrative thread takes place in wintry Berlin in the circles of the Central European lower class , in the “ Berber ” milieu . Oscar and the main character Noah are non-sedentary homeless people who have settled in a disused subway shaft and now have to flee from the sub-zero temperatures. Noah has a fever caused by a gunshot wound. In addition, due to amnesia ( amnesia syndrome or Korsakov's disease), he can no longer remember the past events. The name “Noah” is carved into his hand, all that is known of his identity. Noah discovers a picture and an advertisement in a discarded newspaper that promises the painter of the picture a million dollar reward. Noah dials the given telephone number and receives a reservation in the elegant Berlin Hotel Adlon . Noah realizes that he is very good at handling weapons and that the gunshot wound came from the Adlon. In search of his past, he ended up in Amsterdam and later in Rome. Noah is a key element in a global conspiracy whose victims in the form of a severe flu - pandemic already go into the thousands. The episodes of the pregnant journalist Celine, who works for a large New York news agency, a self-critical hit man, a secret box called “Room 17”, which considers itself to be the actual world government, and the American industrialist Jonathan Zaphire, have other narrative threads has invested his entire fortune in the “Worldsaver” foundation.

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" Alicia was ashamed to have to send her son back to the landfill the next morning so that he was barefoot, only wearing dirty underpants, poking around in the garbage, standing in a cloud of flies, happy when he found a half-full yogurt pot, because you could scratch it out on the spot .. "

- Sebastian Fitzek: Noah. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2013, p. 12, ISBN 978-3-7857-2482-8 .

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Jürgen Priester compares Noah with Dan Brown's well-known work Inferno . Both have certain parallels. Both novels are about the hidden machinations of influential people and organizations who have set themselves the goal of reducing overpopulation and are pursuing this goal with all radical means. Here, too, the aim is to exterminate the world's population by at least half in order to offer the survivors, the most resilient organisms, an improved quality of life. A small group of eco-activists come to the conclusion that the only way to save the world is through this radical cure. Right at the beginning of the story, Fitzek manages to develop a high tempo, to build up action-packed tension and cleverly uses the stylistic device of the cliff hanger. In the afterword the author explains that we are all perpetrators and victims at the same time and that we pass this on to future generations.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Sebastian Fitzek: Noah. "Sebastian Fitzek faces reality". Crime review by Jürgen Priester on Krimicouch
  2. ↑ a b c d e f literature. Psychological thriller. Dear Fitzek, don't you have it a size smaller? Die Welt, December 20, 2013
  3. ↑ Sebastian Fitzek: Noah on www.buchwurm.org
  4. ↑ Sebastian Fitzek's “Noah”: In Search of the Mass Murderer. Focus, December 20, 2013
  5. ↑ Eco-terror. Sebastian Fitzek draws conclusions from the overpopulation and turns it into a violent spectacle in his thriller “Noah”. Literary criticism, review forum