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The first thing to be said about Uwe Timm's novel Headhunter, as every one of the many outstanding reviews on its publication in Germany noted, is that it is a thoroughly engrossing book - "gripping and entertaining from beginning to end" (FAZ). The second thing is that Timm, with a wonderfully light and precise touch, has created a multi-layered, multi-faceted book that addresses the times we live in and, most particularly, the role of money ...

Wagner, an all-efficient German engineer, takes in hand the job of rescuing a floundering construction project in the South American rain forest. But before he even reaches the site, his car runs over an emerald-green Acaray snake--marking him, according to local beliefs, for death. Things go from bad to worse. Wagner's slowly degenerating colleagues are useless, his attempts to help the workers bring on a strike that the military regime suppr...

Anschaulich und höchst anregend:die Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen von Uwe Timm"Der legendäre >Adorno-Hörsaal< VI der Frankfurter Goethe-Universität war überfüllt. (...) Man saß auf Bänken und Pulten, alle Seitengänge und selbst die Zugänge waren verstopft. Zu hören waren in geballter Verdichtung fünf konzise poetologische Vorlesungen, die es in sich hatten. (...) Uwe Timm spannte einen Bogen vom biblischen Buch Genesis und der Offenbarung des ...