Kraft

Richard Kraft, rhetoric's professor of at the University of T? bingen, unhappily married and in financial trouble, may have found a way out of his misfortune. His former colleague Istv? n, a professor at Stanford University, encourages him to enter a scientific contest in Silicon Valley. An Internet tycoon offers one million dollars to the best philosophical answer. Kraft has 18 minutes to explain why creation is perfect as it is, and yet, can be improved. The money would allow Kraft to finally be free of his demanding wife. Funny, angry and wicked, in this clever novel, Jonas L? scher tells the story of a man facing the ruins of his life and a powerful elite that seemingly nothing and no one can stop and that is willing to break any taboo.