A duel turns into a war, a school into a battlefield!

"I quickly raised my arm in salute and turned in the opposite direction, looking down the street. Mick was gone. I still had Zinn's stupid newspaper in my hand. Damn it, I should have put the paper back. I turned to face the house and the first thing I saw was Zinn's front door. The first thing that caught my eye was that the black paint wasn't chipped. There was only one word: "Mick had taken the spray paint and left the official declaration of war here."

An uncanny duel that begins in the narrow confines of a classroom, but expands into the corridors, the garden, other corners of the school and the entire lives of the parties involved. A teacher and a student. Both determined not to be outdone. Both vow to shout for victory. With each move, weaknesses are exposed, strategies are honed, violence escalates. Who will win this war? If wars have a winner, of course...

In this novel, Luca Bloom, one of the young writers of contemporary German literature, explores the limits of the violence that seeps through the doors of schools. The novel, which portrays the different disguises of bullying and verbal abuse in a harsh and painful language, chills the reader by suggesting that the losses in personal wars can be as heavy as those in mass wars.