Faserland has been translated into Russian, Czech,[1] Latvian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Korean, Romanian, French, Ukrainian, Swedish, Norwegian and Hebrew.

Directly translated, it means "land of fibers"[2] a possible reference to the narrator's recurring fixation on clothing, in particular his Barbour jacket.

The unnamed narrator is in his late twenties and is the son of a wealthy family, and travels south from the northernmost tip of Germany down to the Bodensee and onwards to Zürich.

He begins in Sylt and heads through Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Munich, Meersburg, and finally Zürich.

In each of these places he has experiences with decadent excesses in the form of alcohol, drugs, and sexual encounters.