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Fischer  \nFebruary 2021 / 209pp Fiction  \n US Jury Pick  \nThe Goethe-Institut supported the English translation of this book.  \nThe Line Between Day and Night  \nDie Linie zwischen Tag und Nacht  \nreview  \nThe Line Between Day and Night is a fast-paced yet reflective novel that documents the colourful, hedonistic and seamy underbelly of contemporary Berlin life, seen through the eyes of a suspended policeman.  \nTommy is a middle-aged detective with the drugs squad, on suspension for suspected corruption. One day he fishes the dead body of a young woman in a bridal outfit from the canal, triggering a quest to discover both the identity of the victim and the circumstances surrounding her death. This odyssey takes him through the shadowy streets and clubs of Berlin, where he encounters a host of flamboyant characters. The search for the truth is also a personal journey for Tommy: we soon learn that his police career was all but shattered when he killed a young boy while speeding in his car to a drugs bust. After that event the boundaries between law enforcement and infringement became blurred for Tommy as he befriended dealersand started taking drugs himself. His obsession with finding out the truth about the dead girl is powered by an endless cocktail of drugs and drink.  \nIn the end, the young woman turns out to have been a Syrian refugee, who had been held semi-captive in Berlin by her rescuer, Cem Ulusoy. Escaping his clutches, she had found refuge in the druggy art and club scene, but eventually died from an overdose. Her dead body was placed in the canal by her lover and best friend in a  \nnew books in german 1 / 4  \nritualistic marriage–funeral ceremony. There is a symmetry to the novel’s conclusion, with Tommy falling into the canal himself after an armed encounter with Cem.  \nThe Line Between Day and Night stands out for its exploration of the liminal. Nothing in Schimmelpfennig’s work is clear-cut: nobody is merely a hero or a villain, nor can we take what the narrator tells us at face value. His mind, increasingly addled by drugs and exhaustion, seems to vacillate between lucidity and hallucination, and his thought processes are interrupted by broken fragments of memory. The Berlin rave scene is presented both as deceptively shallow and as a source of community for vulnerable people, while the criminal underworld showcases the best and worst of human nature.  \nWith its candid exploration of the German capital’s legendary, drugfuelled nightlife, the book will have a strong appeal for the many British and American readers who are fans of Berlin. The novel’s commercial potential is also enhanced by its conciseness, humour and brisk narrative, driven by the mystery that forms the backbone of the plot.  \n[https://www.fischerverlage.de/verlag/rights/book/roland-schimmelpfen](https://www.fischerverlage.de/verlag/rights/book/roland-schimmelpfen)[ ](https://www.fischerverlage.de/verlag/rights/book/roland-schimmelpfen)[nig-die-linie-zwischen-tag-und-nacht-9783103974102](nig-die-linie-zwischen-tag-und-nacht-9783103974102)  \nListen to translator David Tushingham reading a sample translation from Roland Schimmelpfennig’s The Line Between Day and Night. This video is available as part of the New Books in German playlist on the Translators Aloud YouTube channel.  \nnew books in german 2 / 4  \npress quotes  \n‘A highly original and often hypnotic work   exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace.’  \nJohn Boyne, author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS  \n‘A 21st-century Döblin’  \nDer Freitag  \n‘A round dance, whose merciless circularity enthrals and unsettles us – a powerful text full of momentum and immediacy.’  \nSpiegel Online  \nabout the author  \nRoland Schimmelpfennig, born in 1967, is Germany’s mostperformed contemporary dramatist. 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