Alina Bronsky liest am 20.2.25 aus "Pi mal Daumen"

In the organizer's words:

Bestselling author Alina Bronsky presents a comedy about two people who come from different worlds - and in the end no longer want to be without each other. Warm-hearted, fast-paced and highly entertaining.

Dear Alina Bronsky, are you actually good at mental arithmetic?

Not at all. I only learned German numbers at grammar school and have still had difficulties understanding them acoustically ever since. The number system, where the ones digit is called before the tens digit, seems too twisted for my brain. With pen and paper, however, the arithmetic works reasonably well.

They meet for the first time in a lecture: the highly gifted Oscar is 16, has a title of nobility and has never taken the subway before. Moni Kosinsky has three grandchildren, several part-time jobs and loves bright lipstick and high heels. She is determined to secretly fulfill her dream of studying math.
But in the lecture hall, Moni is mistaken for a cleaning lady and ridiculed. How did she come to enrol for one of the most difficult subjects of all? And how does she know the most famous professor at the university?
Soon Oscar is not the only one to realize that Moni's intellect and perseverance are greater than the gaps in her knowledge. Because mathematics doesn't care about questions of origin, age or appearance. Oscar, on the other hand, struggles with everyday life and finds a confidante in the warm-hearted Moni, of all people, who gives his life a decisive turn. The two outsiders soon form a friendship that no one would have thought possible.

A light-footed, sophisticated, tragicomic novel about a dazzling heroine and an unusual friendship that goes far beyond questions about the fourth dimension and bad cafeteria food through studies and life.

Alina Bronsky's debut novel Scherbenpark became an instant bestseller and was made into a movie in 2013. She was nominated for the 2015 German Book Prize with Baba Dunja's Last Love , and her bestsellers Der Zopf meiner Großmutter and Barbara stirbt nicht were published in the following years.