A plea for more equanimity in love. Kristina Maidt-Zinke in Die Zeit. A woman loves a man because he loves her. What more could one wish for? Yet the world shows no mercy: on a trip to China, the man disappears again, and one wonders if everything is as it should be. Why seek change when happiness has been found? Why not stay where one is happy? Sibylle Berg tells a modern love story and depicts a world, with both melancholic and malicious imagery, where one can survive only in pairs. Cynical, melancholic, and tender, it is a brutally honest novel with a razor-sharp, self-critical diagnostic obsession. Felicitas von Lovenberg in the FAZ.