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Nordlicht Breznik, Melitta
This is a novel about the tranquility and expanse of northern Norway. A novel of two independent women who make their own decisions about their lives and are willing to accept deprivation in turn. ...
Kerner Czurda, Elfriede
When Rowohlt publishers, formerly devoted and steadfast, took leave of supposedly difficult, unmerchantable literature at the end of the 1990s, it resulted in the unbearable situation of Elfriede ...
Der Fliegenpalast Kappacher, Walter
1924, Bad Fusch in Pinzgau. Walter Kappacher’s protagonist, “H.” is a writer in a health crisis and in a creative crisis. “H.” – which stands for the writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal ...
Jakob schläft Merz, Klaus
Jakob died at birth. He has been at rest in heaven since then and watches over the family. Meanwhile, down below, stories from the family album are played out. A new gadget is being worshipped in ...
Mitten auf der Straße Köhlmeier, Michael
For the first time, Deuticke has brought together a selection of Michael Köhlmeier’s best short stories in one volume. „Bevor Max kam“ („Before Max Came“), „Der traurige Blick in die ...
Sorge. Ein Traum Kubaczek, Martin
At the very beginning the end is clear. Richard Sorge knows where his last steps will take him: to the gallows. After three years of imprisonment, it is the year 1944, he is en route to his ...
tokio, rückwärtstagebuch Röggla, Kathrin
The backwards movement is the formal principle of tokio, rückwärtstagebuch, a collaboration between the artist Oliver Grajewski and writer Kathrin Röggla. Grajewski’s graphic novel is, as is ...
Durch und durch Gahse, Zsuzsanna
Zsuzsanna Gahse sits at the window – like E.T.A. Hoffmann’s cousin once sat at the corner window –and looks out onto the street. The street leads from east to west through the village of ...
Verlangen nach Drachen Roßbacher, Verena
Klara Grün, paleontology student, buses tables at the Viennese coffeehouse Neugröschl, a meeting place for schemers, dreamers, inventors and explorers. Here’s where everything comes together, ...
Österreich ist schön Franzobel,
Not a fairy tale: Since Franzobel won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1995 in Klagenfurt, he has been famous in German-speaking countries. An overnight success, so to speak. From one day to the ...
Ein Chinese auf dem Fahrrad Magnus, Ariel (Aus dem Span. von Silke Kleemann)
Did the Chinaman, Li, really set alight to all the launderettes in Buenos Aires? He is in any case condemned without reliable evidence. After the sentence is pronounced, he therefore takes the ...
Ich reiß mir eine Wimper aus und stech dich damit tot. Winkler, Josef
Anthemic Prose Since Natura morta (2001), Roppongi (2007) and certainly since his new anthemic prose work, no-one in Austrian literature has been able to hold a candle to Büchner Prize winner ...
Schaumschluchten Balàka , Bettina
Bettina Balàka, who was born in 1966, is a very versatile authoress. She writes novels, short stories, poems, plays, radio plays and essays and has received many literary prizes. In ...
Sez Ner Camenisch, Arno
Marvelling at the beauty of the mountain scenery, the tourists hike past the Alpine chalet in their red socks, stopping to take photos of the Alpine herdsman standing outside. Cleaning their ...
Jakob von Gunten Walser, Robert (מגרמנית: אילנה המרמן)
Jakob von Gunten arrives at the Benjamenta Institute with one goal: to rid himself of his noble background and become a nobody. Just a nobody, one big zero, a dot of human existence, free of any ...
(Krieg und Welt) Waterhouse, Peter
Childhood in Malaysia, adolescence in Germany during the period of the Cold War. His father, a British secret agent, is at home in many languages, yet relates nothing in any of them. He ...
Texas Rose Plambeck, Dy
A wonderful, well-written and wistful must-read about Aunt Lillian, a colourful go-getter and unruly, exuberant Western enthusiast. We first meet her in 1987 at the age of forty, when together ...
Hanna und ich Winkler, Andrea
"You know what the worst of all bug-eyed things is: letters packed in boxes, lying lie there on the bottom shelf, simply the fact that they don’t just vanish into thin air." Andrea Winkler ...
Hundert Tage Bärfuss, Lukas
English version is coming Seit einigen Jahren brilliert Lukas Bärfuss als Theaterautor auf Bühnen in aller Welt. „Hundert Tage“ markiert sein Debüt als Romanautor. Mitreissend erzählt er ...
An den Mond Schutting, Julian
“Yes, well… what our kind, when poet- / icising away, understands by poems –“br /> In the thin volume An den Mond (‘To the Moon’), Julian Schutting collects together “nature ...
Sindets tremmer Gudmundsson, Einar Mar (Oversat af Erik Skyum Nielsen)
Autobiographical novel about the author's alcoholism and his treatment, during which he meets Einar Thor Jonsson, an alcoholic and drug addict. A magical, life-affirming story about the road into ...
Luciferin Rainer, Angelika
The title of this first book, which is extraordinary both as far as its content and its language are concerned, derives from the fluorescent substance of glowworms. The short protagonist Lucy ...
Paloma Mayröcker, Friederike
Friederike Mayröcker’s latest book publication, auspiciously entitled Paloma , comprises 99 letters to an addressee who is not known by name. However, the recipient, addressed as 'Dear ...
Don Juan de la Mancha oder Die Erziehung der Lust Menasse, Robert
Don Juan is over the hill. All that he can now manage to do is look back at his life. Nathan has no desire anymore. And for the always groaning Viennese newspaper editor that is anything but a ...
Neid Jelinek, Elfriede
"Neid" is the title of the new novel by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It is a “private novel”, which can only be read on the author’s homepage, and therefore does not participate in ...
Ruhm Kehlmann, Daniel
Ruhm (‘Fame’) is the laconic title of the new book by best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann. Its subtitle proclaims it to be 'A Novel in Nine Stories' and indeed the individual stories are ...
Die Morawische Nacht Handke, Peter
Night has already fallen as seven invited guests arrive on board a houseboat on the Morawa, a tributary of the Danube, to listen to the story of a former author, the story of a journey to the end ...
Sommerfugledalen Christensen, Inger
A requiem is a mass for the dead, and death is a central theme in "Butterfly Valley", but it is also a tribute to a life of vulnerability. The poems are written in the classical rhymed ...
Das Alphabet der Zeit Roth, Gerhard
Having grown up between the railway shunting yard and the rubbish tips on the edge of the city of Graz, Gerhard Roth tells the story of his childhood and youth, spent during the hardship and ...
Suverænen Das Beckwerk - The Director,
Is it possible to debate democracy in a novel? Yes, and, when the extremely odd couple Rasmussen and Nielsen travel to America to test its democracy, you can even count on daring humour into the ...
