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A German alternate history book from 2005 by SF grandmaster Wolfgang Jeschke. Known as Das Cusanus Spiel [sic] in the original, and translated into English since 2013/14.
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Starting around the year 2050, Europe is a hellhole or pretty close at least: Global Warming has expanded the deserts, the seas are rising; many refugees try to go to Europe (many Bangladeshis and such in fact have been settled there, either in container cities or their own villages); several fascist movement like the ASEN, the Praetorians or the KKK derivate KICOB try to fight them; the French nuclear power plant in Cattenom has blown up and irradiated huge parts of Central Europe, as far as Poland; the EU has crumbled, states like e.g. Bavaria have proclaimed independence, for better or for worse; and oil has practically run out (although technology isn't dead yet).
In this world, the Italian botanicist Domenica Ligrina is hired for a very special mission…