Sophia is in her mid-twenties, controller at Daimler and stressed. Because with her four-month-old son Max, she is on parental leave and spends her days mostly alone at home - between screaming child, painful breastfeeding, sleepless nights and boredom.
Her boyfriend, Jan, wants to be a journalist but is only moderately successful and away on every opportunity. "Take it again, honey, I have to edit an article," it says. Sex? - not so soon after birth. Gone up the carefree time, says Sophia, as you celebrated the nights and took your life as it came. Now there are only drool, snot and diapers.
In his novel "Fake", Frank Rudkoffsky charmingly tells the story of young adults from the middle of society who are struggling with their role as parents. Where was the luck left? Did not we want to go on this world tour? Sophia and Jan's life is digitalized and full of brand names. Tablet and smartphone are the constant companions. The internet a place of refuge. They tweet trivia or post pictures of themselves while jogging. Klein Max is not interested in that much. In his function as a baby, he reminds of humanity in general.
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Sophia wants to throw out the anger that has built up in her - the internet seems perfect for that. Allegedly without consequences. So she becomes the "troll": someone who makes an effort to emotionally provoke others in the net with his comments, or rather, to offend the most vulgar.
Cynical and clever, Rudkoffsky describes the dark side of the internet and how easy it is to spread bullshit there. Where journalists mingle with fake profiles among Pegida people, and mothers argue about which child's head circumference is the right one. And then you find out that at the end of the line maybe a normal person named Hartmut sits.
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Sophia almost chokes on what she calls her "duty" to take care of the baby and says things like, "Max needed me more than his father, Max needed me," and wonders why that's the word "mothering" but not the word "bevatern" exist.
Her trolls are full of malice and political impropriety. Soon she had under various fake profiles against gays, feminists, vaccine opponents and homeopathy friends. Every nasty comment gives her relief. Rudkoffsky succeeds witty and pointedly: "Hey, PETA - how do you like my new fur?", He lets Sophia write, and be happy about the indignant reactions. Then she fashions the profile of the convinced Stuttgart 21 opponent "Rita", with whom Jan originally wanted to conduct Wallraff-like research, is still attached to an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and finally gets what she thinks she has earned the most: Pity. And likes. A bad conscience? - Nope. Moral? - I where! Instead: Egotrip.
Rudkoffsky's protagonists go without any regard for losses and end up with something unexpected: themselves. Bitterbös goes to "Fake", but also over 233 pages fast-paced and exciting.
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Publisher Voland & Quist
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240
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EUR 20,00
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"Fake" is a relationship box with a digital monster and a novel with local color. You eat Maultaschen and Kässpätzle, drive through Stuttgart's west and look with the protagonists on the TV tower. For much of the novel, Rudkoffsky takes the perspective of the woman, which succeeds and gives the impression as if he had listened to many a young mother in his environment well.
The novel lives from its exaggerations and always carries a spark of truth. So the thoughts sneak in: Has the nice neighbor just written this hate comment to me? Or was it my best friend, who just called "RollingRose" called my child a reptile? Did my partner really just say: "You are on the wall!" cleverly?