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Meet Fred Kaufmann, disillusioned husband of thoroughly competent Claudia and father of surly teenager Franka. His dreams of being a movie director have long ago been shelved for marriage and a child. While Claudia sells her successful vegetarian take-out restaurant to a fast food chain and buys into Buddhism, Fred is trapped in the throes of a classic midlife crisis, made worse when Franka falls madly in love with a young guru. With the hope that brown rice and hardcore meditation will cure Franka's obsession, Fred chaperones his daughter to the meditation center in the South of France. But as a bizarre set of events unfolds, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that only a special kind of hero can survive. Funny, incisive, and ultimately forgiving, Where Do We Go From Here? is a masterpiece of ironic social comedy from one of Germany's leading writers and filmmakers.

"With his detached, eminently humane, honest, and bitingly funny narration, Fred makes an unerringly entertaining companion--and he even finds wisdom in Buddhist teachings, despite his best efforts to remain crass and ironic."

Kirkus, 05/15/2001

"In Doris Dörrie's darkly comic novel, Germany's countercultural past hangs like a storm-cloud in a rear-view mirror....John Brownjohn's translation renders the novel's mordant comic observations into a brisk and suitably deadpan English."

Brian Dillon, Times Literary Supplement, 07/20/2001

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