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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
English version is coming soon In german: Es ist schön in den Bergen, schwärmen die Touristen, die in roten Socken an der Alphütte vorbei wandern und den Senn davor mit ihrer Kamera ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kaltschweißattacken Falkner, Michaela
I would like to lie on the edge of the world... Love is the continuation of war by other means, writes Elfriede Jelinek. “There is always violence here. There is always fighting here. It ...
Alle sieben Wellen Glattauer, Daniel
With readers having refused to accept the open ending of Gut gegen Nordwind (‘Good against the North Wind’) for three years, Daniel Glattauer has finally given Leo and Emmi a second chance: ...
Der Nachzügler Millesi, Hanno
The main character in Hanno Millesi’s new book Der Nachzügler (‘The Straggler’) is an avantgarde author. “I am an experimental writer. Society has thought up this slightly ...
Herr Faustini und der Mann im Hund Hermann, Wolfgang
To Illuminate the World with a Laugh A lemon tree would bring new life into the house, says Mr Faustini and promises: as soon as it gets warmer you can go out on the terrace. After all, ...
Der lange Gang über die Stationen Kaiser-Mühlecker, Reinhard
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker’s first novel Der lange Gang über die Stationen (The Long Walk From Station to Station) takes place in the Salzkammergut Area in upper Austria in the 1950s. The ...
Ihr Mann und der Fremde Rumpl, Manfred
Manfred Rumpl’s novel is not literary pornography, even though it has been advertised as such by the publishers. It is a tightrope walk between explicit, partly sado-masochist scenes, and this ...
Nkaah Stavarič, Michael
To make childhood the sole topic of a text is a hazardous undertaking. Michael Stavarič does it in his latest book – and the text is surprising, though it is hardly surprising that it is more ...
Mariaschwarz Steinfest, Heinrich
Heinrich Steinfest, born in 1961, is regarded as a ‘typical’ representative of the Austrian thriller. The plots of his crime novels do not generally follow the laws of logic, his characters ...
