A delight. Ijoma Mangold, Süddeutsche Zeitung Nothing is more unsettling than the void left by someone who disappears: A train comes to a halt in the open countryside, a woman seemingly exits without motive. Her fellow passengers watch as she becomes smaller in the unfamiliar, uninhabited landscape and eventually vanishes completely. Or a memory of a summer on a North Sea island: A few older children invent a scary story about the mud giant to frighten the younger ones. The next day, a boy is missing... And where did the green ring and the red heart go? Following her bestseller "Aging," Silvia Bovenschen tells stories of disappearance: forgetting, losing, malicious concealment, leading to the ultimate consequence, the final disappearance from this world.