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BERNI MAYER
Das vorläufige Ende der Zeit / The Temporary End of Time
A Novel, ca. 256 pages
Spring 2023
A moving novel about how the choices we regret also make us the people we are today
A comforting, wise and funny book about the search for meaning by two people who want to regain access to their lives
On the search for meaning in life, the question of what really makes us happy, and how trauma can be healed
What If it Were Possible to Travel Back in Time and Turn Your Life in a Different Direction
The Słubice Jewish Cemetery is part of Frankfurt an der Oder, but lies within the borders of Poland. It is here where archaeologist Mi-Ra Kim embarks upon a survey and meets Polish cemetery keeper and ex-Olympian Artur and Horatio Beeltz, a curious old man who not only knows everything about the area but astonishingly seems to know about Mi-Ra and Artur, two outsiders who are wrangling with their own pasts. Mi-Ra has only half-recovered from her traumatic childhood, and since the death of his young daughter, Artur has been living a mute existence in his near-silent marriage. Horatio Beeltz reveals to them that he has discovered a tear in the fabric of time in the Słubice Cemetery, and suggests they try an experiment. He offers Mi-Ra and Artur the opportunity to travel back into their own pasts to a certain point in their lives and try to make different, or right, choices. They must return to their old selves. Horatio uses magic mushrooms to place his ‘test subjects’ in a trance, and the time travel begins.Mi-Ra and Artur must ultimately learn that it’s not always our obvious poor choices that plunge the world into chaos, and that changes in the past often simply lead to new trials and predicaments. In the end, we will discover how they heal their past traumas and, in doing so, shape the present, and whether they will be able to patch up the gap in time — and save the world.
Das vorläufige Ende der Zeit / The Temporary End of Time
A Novel, ca. 256 pages
Spring 2023
A moving novel about how the choices we regret also make us the people we are today
A comforting, wise and funny book about the search for meaning by two people who want to regain access to their lives
On the search for meaning in life, the question of what really makes us happy, and how trauma can be healed
What If it Were Possible to Travel Back in Time and Turn Your Life in a Different Direction
The Słubice Jewish Cemetery is part of Frankfurt an der Oder, but lies within the borders of Poland. It is here where archaeologist Mi-Ra Kim embarks upon a survey and meets Polish cemetery keeper and ex-Olympian Artur and Horatio Beeltz, a curious old man who not only knows everything about the area but astonishingly seems to know about Mi-Ra and Artur, two outsiders who are wrangling with their own pasts. Mi-Ra has only half-recovered from her traumatic childhood, and since the death of his young daughter, Artur has been living a mute existence in his near-silent marriage. Horatio Beeltz reveals to them that he has discovered a tear in the fabric of time in the Słubice Cemetery, and suggests they try an experiment. He offers Mi-Ra and Artur the opportunity to travel back into their own pasts to a certain point in their lives and try to make different, or right, choices. They must return to their old selves. Horatio uses magic mushrooms to place his ‘test subjects’ in a trance, and the time travel begins.Mi-Ra and Artur must ultimately learn that it’s not always our obvious poor choices that plunge the world into chaos, and that changes in the past often simply lead to new trials and predicaments. In the end, we will discover how they heal their past traumas and, in doing so, shape the present, and whether they will be able to patch up the gap in time — and save the world.