T.C. Boyle reads from his novel in amperes "When the battle is over"

T.C. Boyle on the roof of his house in Santa Barbara - Photo: Milo Boyle / www.tcboyle.com
On 05.07.2012 reads the American writer Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, better known as TC Boyle, in the Muffathalle in Munich from his new novel, "When the battle is over." As a German voice is at this reading David Eisermann heard. "When the battle is over," Boyle's twelfth novel, and is already dealing again with the favorite topic of the author: the relationship between man and nature.

This time, a choleric animal rights activists clash and a supercooled scientist. Boyle knows more than any other writer to create exciting fictional characters from environmental activists and has spared no expense or effort to promote his latest work impressively. It was filmed as a bombastic trailer, in which the conflict of the two mentioned, different conservationists - Biologist Alma Boyd Takesue and activist Dave LaJoy - is clear:

Alma Boyd Takesue: "The invaders are a real threat to the survival of the island. Our Channel Islands, the Galapagos Islands of North America. We're talking about species that exist nowhere else in the world. "
Dave LaJoy: "Who exactly has chosen you to that?"
Alma Boyd Takesue, "Mr. LaJoy, they will have the opportunity to comment on it, but now they do not hesitate and wait until it's your turn. The drug is rapidly and it humanely. "
Dave LaJoy: "Even more lies! It's rat poison. This poison causes a slow death by internal bleeding. It takes three to ten days, ten days! They call that human? "
(Dialogue from the "When the battle is over" trailer)

T.C. Boyle reads from his new novel Muffathalle "When the battle is over"

T.C. Boyle - Photo: Pablo Campos / www.tcboyle.com
Scene of the story are the Channel Islands off the southern coast of California, where the environment has been disturbed by humans. Should we restore the balance of the ecosystem with a lot of taxpayers' money - which inevitably means the extinction of some species - or should be prevented at all costs to kill? Boyle's furious, apocalyptic novel is about the exploitation of nature by man and the catastrophic consequences. Boyle was never so bitter and angry, he's never been so serious.

The Hanser Verlag, appeared in Boyle's latest work in early February, wrote: "The [environmental] movement is a resistance in society, but people are behind them so no saints, but ordinary people who react just as irrationally as any other . "

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "the luck in this novel insight into the (...) that one should prefer to let nature take its course, as time after time killing and rectification machines to throw." Is

Come and visit T.C. Boyle's reading on 07.05.2012 in the Muffathalle in Munich. We hope you enjoy.