Stephan Thome
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Every seven years, Bergenstadt is turned upside down, celebrating the walking of the boundaries, a traditional three-day festival, and it's not just the district boundaries that are put to the test. Full of unexpected twists and turns, Stephan Thome tells a gripping tale of the hunt for happiness which takes his characters from Berlin and Cologne to Hesse's backwaters and from there to a swingers' club on the outskirts of Frankfurt. It is soon obvious how easily supposed certainties can be lost and how we tread on thin ice with our ideas for our lives.
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Stephan Thome was born in Biedenkopf, Hesse, in 1972. He studied philosophy, religious studies and Sinology at Berlin's Free University and at different universities in China, Taiwan and Japan. Since 2005, he has been living and working in Taipeh, Taiwan.
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