Liminal

A thrilling, filmic immersion into Berlin's legendary club scene by the author of One Clear, Ice-cold Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century

Tells an unaffected, gritty, exciting story that you can immediately imagine as a film

The panorama of characters is intoxicating

Schimmelpfennig the novelist, like the playwright, succeeds in making his characters lively and believable with just a few strokes

A restless novel written in clear language by a dramatist used to condensing events into vivid scenes.

An intoxicating sequence of scenes, with the sober realization that nothing can end well here

A breathless noir novel full of fragile characters, an a powerfully compelling read - the pages practically turn by themselves

Roland Schimmelpfennig, born in 1967, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright. He began his career as a journalist before studying to be a theatre director, and his plays have now been performed in more than forty countries. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Prize, to honor his entire Oeuvre. O ne Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century is his first novel, shortlisted for the Leipzig Bookfair Prize in 2016. His play Winter Solstice is on tour across the U.K. in 2018. He lives in Berlin.