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I'm loving it. Thank you @ju.ca.no for the tip. I'll tell you when I start reading it. But which book I have to read frist? #litsyisgreat

Very intense book! 1000 pages - 5 characters, 5 different styles. From the french revolution to the Fukushima tragedy. From an encyclopedia to a Manga. We see personal tragedies, pain and catastrophes. But also courage and love.
I‘ve never read a book like this, it‘s so very unique and impressed me a lot, and I really hope it gets translated to english, so that more people can read it. This deserves a place among my favourite books. 5🌟

The last part of the book is a Manga, drawn by an Austrian Artist. The story follows Abra, a young girl who lost her parents, twin sister, one arm and one leg in a car accident and suffers a lot from that losses. There is no real story line, we don‘t really know what‘s real and what‘s a dream, hallucination, or what‘s due to the drugs. It was chaotic, but also showed her feelings, her pain in a very unique way. 3/5⭐️

The fourth part of the book was very intense! 9 year old Akio survives the Fukushima tragedy. Heartbreaking insights, unbelieveable that there are certainly children out there who also had to fight their way through dead bodys and destruction... 4/5⭐️ last part of the book is a Manga, that follows Abra, a japanese girl that already appeared in book two and four. She was a bit annoying in the second book, so I‘m not sure if I will like it.

The 4th part of this book. We follow Akio, a 9 year old japanese boy, whose house was in Fukushima - until the tsunami came and took it away. He is alone and tries to be brave, the book follows his thoughts during the time after the tragedy.

Also please note how absolutely adorable my bookmark is! It was a present from @Louise and I absolutely love it! Thanks so much!

Finished another part of this brilliant book. If I could rate it individually it would be 5🌟 again. We follow Chantal, on her travel to Japan and within Japan on the search of infos about her great grandma (book 1) At least that‘s what she tells us. It feels like she is running away from her love and her feeling of jealousy. Herself and her thinking are falling apart more and more. Plus there‘s lots scientific theory and ideas about being human.

The third part of this book follows Chantal. It‘s her „cahiers“ some sort of diary. The experimental way it is written reminds me a bit of House of Leaves - I‘m just at the very beginning but very much intrigued 😍

Finished part 2 of this great book 💕 I enjoyed it - not as much as the first but it was still great!
It follows Jona, who searches for his love Chantal in Tokyo, whose ‚Cahiers‘ make up part 3. as he has no idea where she actually is he encounters other interesting Characters. a huge earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe change his plans. Especially part two was very interesting, where he talks to a victim of the nuclear explosion.4/5⭐️

Part 1 of this book was brilliant, unfortunately I can‘t rate it on its own but it would be 5🌟 The young, french Paulette strives for freedom, which seems impossible for a woman during the 19th century. She travels from Paris to Vienna to Japan, only to find herself bound to the same old traditions over and over again.
The next part follows her great grand daugther‘s lover, who again travels to Japan. He searches for love but finds tragedy.

I‘m only halfway through part one of this huge book in five parts - but I‘m so very much in love with this brilliant book already! The first part is written as an encyclopidia, a bit like diary entries. It follows Paulette, a 17 year old middle class girl in the 19th century during the french revolution. At first she teams up with the proletariat, then flees to her family in Versailles. Now she is going to Vienna, to the world fair.

‚Am Weltenrand sitzen die Menschen und lachen‘ is a really interesting book concept - it is one novel, five books, each written from a different perspective,in a different style, during a different time and place of earth by Phillipp Weiss. I think it‘s about the change of our world during the Anthrropocene.
This is part one of the book, it takes place in Paris 1870 and follows Paulette. I can‘t wait to dive in!