Liefern

They bring food to our homes before our very eyes, and yet they remain so invisible: food delivery men. Author Tomer Gardi combines their stories to create a contemporary epic that spans the globe. His novel "Liefern" tells of racism and exploitation, of love, family and the great longing for connection. No German novel has been so contemporary, so international, so political and light-footed at the same time for a long time.

The novel is told in six chapters and from the perspective of different characters who, in the end, all belong together in different ways.

Filmon, who fled from Eritrea to Tel Aviv, works as a delivery man. He wants to raise enough money to follow his wife and daughter to Berlin. His job is always in danger, he has no work permit and travels under a false name. His wife and daughter learn German from Nina at the education center, who travels to Delhi for an exchange semester, where she falls in love with the Argentinian Ramón. The narrator travels to Istanbul to squander the prize money after a literary prize scam. And in Buenos Aires, Ramón's mother has to come to terms with her son's absence.

In cooperation with the Literaturzentrum Hamburg.