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Im Spiegel der Ahnen
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The Dragon Boat Festival ends the first volume of Jimmy Brainless' intercontinental epic, "In the Light of the Puddle." As is customary, the Taiwanese part of the family has gathered around the house altar and is making offerings to the dead. The picture of the mother of the first-person narrator Simon, the person torn between Tainan and Vienna, is also there. Puddles, 'these sailing ships of reflection' (Octavio Paz), are for Simon the tried and tested means of looking into the past. The ancestors are now reflected in the second part; Anton, for example, a happy child from Vienna's 9th district who loses an eye while playing and then his father in the Second World War; On the other side of the globe, the kind-hearted Ama, born in Taiwan that was restless under the Japanese occupiers and trained as a thanatopractitioner. She later has to use the techniques she has learned on her own daughter, Simon's mother. Who is to blame for her accidental death? We suspect it: The answer is far-reaching in this dazzling, linguistically playful, tragicomic, story-rich family saga!
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