It was high time for the world to learn the truth. This hard-hitting factual novel is a confession of life that hits the reader like a frozen axe. Only extraordinary compression of fate has made such a density of events possible: The author has been a circus performer, a robber in the woods, a gay sailor, a painter, a dreamer, and a poet; he has been on the drug scene and in the desert, in Paris, New York, Hamburg, and in Saleika, the village with the largest fair along the lower Danube. Rocko Schamoni's shocking memoirs - now with the previously suppressed chapters.