The history of literature about which the whole of Germany got excited! With sharp-tongued humour, Volker Weidermann, head of the feature section of the FAS, guides us through 60 years of literary history - from wartime exiles like Thomas Mann or Lion Feuchtwanger to contemporary literature by the young pop faction with representatives like Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre or Christian Kracht. Highly read and at the same time wonderfully provocative, Weidermann's "Lichtjahre" is more of an unveiling report on the German literary scene than a conventional literary history.