Michael Götting’s debut novel Contrapunctus takes a brutally honest look at the lives of Indigo, Rutha-Pong, Habibi, and Olaudah. Four Black Germans in Berlin at the turn of the millennium struggling with the city’s colonial heritage, their relationships, and the symptoms of racist tendencies in society. A counterpoint of Black voices equally juxtaposed with one another, based on the compositional form of the fugue; their polyphonic narratives intertwined; issues of belonging, interconnectedness, immigration, and home woven together in ever-changing ways. Witty, charged with emotion, dramatic, and quite Afro-revolutionary.
A counterpoint set against the monophonic self-image of society and a breakneck ride through the collective consciousness of the Berlin Republic.

Followed by a Q&A with Michael Götting