All of this may sound very academic, a bit full-on but Zeh has a deft touch. Put it this way, Stephen Hawkings would, I'm sure, feel right at home over the supper table. During their regular suppers they invariably exchange news and opinions over such heavyweight subjects as physics, the relativity of time - oh, and perhaps about parallel universes over coffee. If the well-known saying 'No man is an island' were put to Oskar I suspect he would immediately declare himself an island. This sums up Oskar pretty well, I would say. According to Sebastian People like Oskar do not have silly nicknames. While the family man Sebastian appears to wear his education lightly, the ice-cool Oskar is a different beast entirely. so leafy and green that it seems to have its own microclimate. The town of Sophie-de-la-Roche-Strasse (a suitably exotic tongue-twister of a European name) is. Zeh locates her novel in the region of The Black Forest and her descriptive writing gives the novel a sense of the area, of its clean, fresh air and pristine buildings. Their friendship cools off, becomes a little tense and strained. However, as they grow into adulthood real life comes along and tends to get in the way.
Students Sebastian and Oskar are the very best of friends it's almost as if they share the same heartbeat. The lives of two very bright academics are interwoven throughout. It's centred around academic matters, the characters' life decisions and of their unintended consequences.ĭark Matter is translated from German and nothing has been 'lost in translation' here. Summary: This is an enticing - and enchanting - philosophical novel from the pen of German writer Juli Zeh.
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