Blurb 'There are people who are born storytellers. Christian Berkel is one of them.' emotion 'I closed my eyes. For minutes, my heart was beating up to my throat. I lived in a castle in France, there was excellent food, a Pierrot set the table and cleared it away again. I had gained two brothers, plus six dogs in an overgrown park.' Christian Berkel tells the novel of his childhood and youth in a rousing and touching way: a story about inner conflict, departure and cutting the cord - and incidentally a homage to literature, friendship and love. Biography Christian Berkel, known from Downfall and The Semmeling Affair, plays the emotional man just as convincingly as shady characters. As an audio book narrator (Imperium, Der Afghane and others), he masterfully implements every text.