About the book: 2018 / The Lipa family is a family of entrepreneurs. She, her parents and younger brother Bertie earn their living by collecting scrap metal. Their business is difficult, fickle, and sometimes downright dangerous, although the family lives in a world of sublime metaphors created by the head of the family. Their work is noble, they pay for it in hard cash, and the objects they find are taken straight to... “Paradise.” The novel by one of the brightest voices of German-language literature combines fantasy and harsh family history, the grotesque and tragedy of an entire generation cut off from its roots.