TIP! Sven Regener "Magical Mystery Or: The Return of Karl Schmidt".
If you love music, you should read this novel. It doesn't matter what kind of music it is, it's about the very circus of a moderately successful tour experienced by jazz musicians, crooners and techno DJs alike.
Karl Schmidt, former best friend of Mr. Lehmann, comes back to Berlin after years in psychiatry and anti-drug commune - and is the best man to conduct a techno DJ troop sober through the country. Sven Regener's tone is also sober again, including the familiar witty dialogues and life wisdom ("Rain is the only true weather!"). There are also a few alligators, the dangers of jelly bananas, ass-expensive cell phones, Canetti's "Mass and Power," and for jazz fans: a saxophone, too. One of the three best books of 2013, read by the Element of Crime singer himself.