Daniel Gräfe reads from his novel "Wir waren Kometen", published by danubebooks
A mysterious phone call on his 32nd birthday - and Lukas Brandt's longing for a more fulfilling life catches up with him. He leaves his job in a hurry and sets off in search of the caller with whom he once spent his most exciting and painful year in Berlin: Luba Mateo. On his adventurous odyssey across Romania, Lukas abandons all certainties for the first time. He discovers the secret of Luba's childhood under the Ceausescu regime and gains the courage he was previously unable to muster for his wishes and Luba ...
"We were comets" is a wonderful debut novel! A road novel that takes you from Stuttgart deep into the Danube Delta in Romania.
Daniel Gräfe, born in 1971 in Biberach, worked on social projects in the USA and Egypt and, after studying in London, traveled to Africa, Asia and the Middle East researching and writing. He has worked as a cultural and business editor in East and West and is a reporter for the Stuttgarter Zeitung. His stories, reports and poetry have won several awards. "Wir sind Kometen" is his debut novel and was supported by a scholarship from the Förderkreis der Schriftsteller in Baden-Württemberg.
