"Kerstin arrives too late: her grandmother is already buried and the photo album she was promised cannot be found. She can't get away from the old village school where her grandmother was a Russian teacher and where she grew up. Kerstin is haunted by Effi, to whom she still owes the fulfillment of an oath, and Sternemann&Greiff, who - having returned to the village with thoughts of revenge - find out who really brought her to the home back then.

The book is preceded by a warning: There is eating, reproducing, decomposing, beating and plasma singing. No one escapes the frenzied violence of the veteran creature. Hermaphrodites, cannibals, creatures that are neither animal nor plant, immediately transform into other forms of organic life in the frenzy of the flowerless wedding.

"Comrade Cuckoo" is a fantastic and at the same time autobiographical pictorial narrative that spans the arc from a childhood in the village of Pritschitanow in the 1960s to the privatization of public property in the 1990s. Anke Feuchtenberger worked on this story for over a decade under the working title "Ein deutsches Tier im deutschen Wald". " (publisher)

Nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2024.