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A novel lets you walk alongside its characters. People you get to know, moments that make you stop for a while and events that carry you along. You see the world through Noah’s eyes and meet the people who cross his path. His story comes closer and closer.
Noah, a middle-aged man, sets off south in his red camper. Back to places from his past and to people who once played a part in his life. Along the way, memories surface that he has carried with him for years. Love, friendship, loss, entrepreneurship and the choices that brought him to where he is today.
What begins as a journey into the past brings him closer and closer to himself.
Based on a true story.
One night I woke up with a single question: who am I without a role or job title? I got out of bed, sat down behind my laptop and closed my eyes. Images from my past appeared, interspersed with moments I did not yet know.
I started writing.
In the weeks that followed, I recognised events I had described behind my laptop only shortly before. Now they were actually happening.
I thought I was writing a story, but the story was writing me.
For three months, I typed day and night. Until it was finished.
Later, I got into my red camper and drove away. No planned route, following my story. For eighty days. That journey took me to southern Spain. That is where the book found its final form and I prepared it for print.
Noah has his story. And you have yours. As you read, you look through his eyes, but you always bring yourself with you. Your memories, desires, choices and everything you have experienced along the way.
For me, that is where the mirror of this book lies. In what his story makes visible in you.
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