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Sun and Moon
They were best friends starting their stage careers together — until things fell apart. Sonja, nicknamed Sun, was betrayed by Jana von Mond. Years later, Jana — now a comedy star — shows up at Sun’s funeral parlour and asks her to host the memorial service for her late partner. Old wounds reopen, new ones are inflicted. Sun and Moon are unable to break free from their orbit; they shine on, each in their own way, sometimes cold, sometimes warm.
608 pages
2025
978-3-257-07347-8
World rights are handled by Diogenes
»I devoured Sun and Moon – all 602 pages of the book. Not for a long time have I had such fun, following the wild, sad and lovely story of Sonja and Jana, as well as also savouring so many sentences and passages, which often I straightaway had to read again for extra fun and, on second reading realised that satire and irony can also be a way of creating a distance between people who are really painfully close. It’s one of those books I will read again and again.«
»The story is set in – and feeds on – the Berlin milieu and its flashy life concepts, but above all, it’s about the contrast between the two truly unique women, who, like Sun and Moon, repel and at the same time attract each other.«
»Because the characters are so alive, and because you fall in love with them all.«
»And when you’re not trying, for once, to shake the protagonists to keep them from the disaster they’re bringing onto each other, you do what you’re never supposed to do on a cemetery: you laugh.«
»A narrative firework evolves from this explosive mixture.«
»Sun and Moon is an impressive, often merciless confrontation with loss, loyalty and the question how to live on in spite of definite separations and deep pain.«
»From this friendship drama, Chris Kraus weaves a story about guilt, loss and death, but also about the power of friendship, with an unmatched kind of humour. I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time – magnificent!«