Poetic and pointed: 18 forays into the night by SPIEGEL best-selling author Karin Kalisa
What does night watch in old Babylon have to do with a Japanese sleeping beauty? This and much more is revealed by Karin Kalisa in 18 forays into the other side of day — from Jule Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon” to the nocturnal Japanese amphibian and international night trains. In an entertaining and clever journey, we take the lesser travelled path through the sky of the polar lights, look with Plutarch through the telescope and in doing so listen to the resonance of the night in ourselves. At the end, we know: Yes, there are 18 good reasons to like the night, even if it is sometimes darker and occasionally longer than necessary. But for that reason, this book exists
“Karin Kalisa’s great skill is to recount gently but at the same time realistically and without kitsch the great coincidences that form treasures in our society. A book that creates hope.” NDR Kultur Neue Bücher about Bergsalz
