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Freely accessible stories from and around the fictional worlds of the novels, with all available language versions listed directly on this page.

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Lebe um meinetwillen · A chronicle from “Living Forever I”
A chronicle from “Living Forever I”: a first-person narrator follows his father’s path through World War II. Moving between memory, historical events and possible reconstruction, the search for the father becomes a search for the narrator’s own identity.

Short storyEnglish
Live for My Sake · A chronicle from “Living Forever I”
A chronicle from “Living Forever I”: a first-person narrator follows his father’s path through World War II. Moving between memory, historical events and possible reconstruction, the search for the father becomes a search for the narrator’s own identity.

Short storyFrench
Vis pour moi · A chronicle from “Living Forever I”
A chronicle from “Living Forever I”: a first-person narrator follows his father’s path through World War II. Moving between memory, historical events and possible reconstruction, the search for the father becomes a search for the narrator’s own identity.

Short storyItalian
Vivi per me · A chronicle from “Living Forever I”
A chronicle from “Living Forever I”: a first-person narrator follows his father’s path through World War II. Moving between memory, historical events and possible reconstruction, the search for the father becomes a search for the narrator’s own identity.

Short storyGerman
Die Geschichte von Javier Ortiz und Amira Khalid · From the world of “Windy Lane”
A story from the world of “Windy Lane”: young deckhand Javier Ortiz and engineer Amira Khalid work aboard the superyacht “Private Weather”. As technical systems become unreliable, a simple yellow mark on a latch becomes the crucial mechanical warning sign.

Short storyEnglish
The Story of Javier Ortiz and Amira Khalid · From the world of “Windy Lane”
A story from the world of “Windy Lane”: young deckhand Javier Ortiz and engineer Amira Khalid work aboard the superyacht “Private Weather”. As technical systems become unreliable, a simple yellow mark on a latch becomes the crucial mechanical warning sign.

Short storyFrench
L’histoire de Javier Ortiz et d’Amira Khalid · From the world of “Windy Lane”
A story from the world of “Windy Lane”: young deckhand Javier Ortiz and engineer Amira Khalid work aboard the superyacht “Private Weather”. As technical systems become unreliable, a simple yellow mark on a latch becomes the crucial mechanical warning sign.

Short storyGerman
Eine unheimliche Reise zwischen Literatur, Erinnerung und Wirklichkeit

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Ein Prequel zu „Geld ist ein Messer“

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Eine Erzählung in fünf Zuständen

Short storyEnglish
A short story · A prequel to “Money Is a Knife”
Macheath and Jenny grow up together in 1990s Chicago. While Jenny learns to turn intimacy, desire and money into a business, Macheath discovers his gift for patterns in numbers and enters Peach’s financial empire.

Short storyItalian
An unsettling journey through literature, memory and reality
An enigmatic book found in a Regensburg antiquarian shop sends a traveler across the Alps in an old-fashioned carriage. In this Italian edition, Matteo Rossi’s notes increasingly intrude upon the traveler’s reality.

Short storyChinese
A story in five states
The Simplified Chinese edition follows an almost motionless patient through memory, data and artificial intelligence—from the blackbird outside the laboratory to Mintaka c and the question of consciousness.

Short storyItalian
A story in five states
The Italian edition moves from the inner world of an immobilized patient toward an artificial intelligence that expands his perception—and the unresolved question of where consciousness begins.