It was called Schlesenburg, the settlement on the outskirts of the city where Galówka's apartment burned down in the summer of 89. We were sixty families, almost all of them from Poland. And suddenly there was a fear that Romanians or Russian-Germans would move in here. Half the castle looked at the asylum seekers' home with disgust. In his debut novel "Schlesenburg", author Paul Bokowski tells the story of refugees and those born here, of homesickness and a new home. A warm-hearted and bittersweet novel about the dream of adaptation and prosperity - and the question of where you belong when you don't know where you came from.

PAUL BOKOWSKI, born in 1982, is an author and reader. His successful collection of short stories "Hauptsache nichts mit Menschen" was published in 2012. This was followed by "Alleine ist man weniger zusammen" and "Bitte nehmen Sie meine Hand da weg". Paul Bokowski lives and works in Berlin. His debut novel "SCHLESENBURG" was published by btb Verlag in September 2022.

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