Gittersee

"How's it going with Paul," asks Marie. "Good," says Karin. But that's not true. Paul has disappeared. Wickwalz calls it "Republikflucht" and he comes more often now. He's nice and asks Karin questions. Whether Paul has told her anything. What he told her. That you can tell when people you know are lying. And anyway, if you love, you don't leave. In her highly acclaimed debut novel "Gittersee", Charlotte Gneuss tells the story of 16-year-old Karin, who is torn from her youthful everyday life without warning. She wakes up in a world in which truth and lies are equally prescribed by the state. A world in which she soon longs not to know the truth at all - so as not to betray it.