On the run from their small crimes and big life lies, the German-Jewish writer Soli Karubiner and his best friend, millionaire's son Noah Forlani, end up in a small town in Ukraine, from which their families were once driven by the Nazis. By the time they arrive there, they experience the greatest adventure of their lives: wild and quirky, obscene and romantic. There has never been anything quite like this coming-of-age love-artist-family-turning-thriller-home-Holocaust novel - because this is the most Jewish, most American, and funniest novel of contemporary Germany. "Maxim Biller can write. My God, can he ever! 'Biography' is the great German-Jewish novel we have been waiting for: angry, sad, epic, melancholic, and very funny." Daniel Kehlmann "What a book! I am full of admiration for Maxim Biller's narrative temperament.".