Ohrfeige

Summary:

A refugee enters the immigration office to see his case worker one last time. He is angry and has only one wish: that someone finally listen to him. When Karim jumps out of the back of a van three years earlier, he believes he is in France. That is where he has paid to be taken after fleeing Iraq. In reality, he has landed in the middle of the Bavarian countryside. He struggles through bureaucratic forms and asylum shelters until he suddenly receives his revocation and is to be deported. Now, he is back to square one. This novel, as profound as it is warm-hearted, raises one of the central questions of our time: What does it mean for a person when they are not allowed to live either in their homeland or in a foreign country?