Of searching for meaning and losing oneself, of the power of nature and what constitutes being human.
Iquitos on the Amazon, 1984, a woman in search of her twin brother. He was part of the film crew around Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, but disappeared without a trace after the filming of "Fitzcarraldo" was finished. Along the great rivers, the woman goes into the rainforest of the Amazon basin and deep into the abyss of human hopes and longings. "Stromland" (Berlin Verlag) tells of missing people and the search for the right life, for untouched places and new truths. The novel takes us through three centuries in which emigrants and adventurers have left their mark. In his atmospherically dense novel debut, Florian Wacker takes readers into a world that threatens to swallow up its characters. Literary critic Christoph Schröder will lead through the evening.
Text source and further information about this event: https://literaturhaus-frankfurt.de/programm/termine/florian-wacker-stromland-2018-08-23/
