1985, Potsdam, summer vacation. But sixteen-year-old René stays home this year. His mother is dead, and his father is in Switzerland; he leaves René a thousand marks, which he shares brotherly with his friends Dirk, Michael, and Mario. This is, as all four of them feel, a summer that will never come again for them. The boys wander through the hot, vacation-empty city and sit in cafés, but above all, it’s about finding the right girl. "Sketch of a Summer" is a warm-hearted, light novel about the best of all times, youth with its beautiful tragedy. André Kubiczek tells this story wonderfully sensitively and with depth about that time, which will forever remain the best of our lives. It was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2016.