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Cold Water Riley, Gwendoline
“An American-style cellar bar” is the novel’s opening line – a cellar bar in downtown Manchester. Carmel McKisko is not kept especially busy at her bar job. Instead, she reads Thomas ...
Ausgehen Marković, Barbi
Going clubbing and thinking – these two don‟t fit well together. If you go clubbing, you can forget thinking. A thinker spoils clubbing. “Ausgehen” (“Going Out”) by Barbi Marković is ...
The Adve Tw, Mar
While holding the letter to inform Miss Watson that he was with Jim his runaway slave, Huck says,‘It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I’d got ...
Der Platz des Hundes Weidenholzer, Anna
Anna Weidenholzer’s eight stories are loosely connected by their characters; the author lets her characteristically laconic style play over the everyday lives of the characters, who have been ...
Kein einziger Tag Stift, Linda
The Austrian biotope always seems to have the right degree of dampness for ominous cases of symbiosis. Anyone who wants to be spared the need to look at the political and media scenes for some ...
Daraus lassen sich ein paar Erzählungen machen Prochasko, Taras
In 2009, Suhrkamp published a translation by Maria Weissenböck – a slim narrative edition by Taras Prochasko with the delightfully understated title of “Daraus lassen sich ein paar ...
Baba Rada Grigorcea, Dana
Time has stood still beneath the dwarf nut tree. Baba Rada reads an evil fate in the cards, while dead Antim crawls into a tree hollow, Ileana becomes engaged and the old red beard finally buries ...
Nachrichten aus der Luft Gomringer, Nora
Nowadays, the high art of love poetry consists in escaping from great examples, yet without ignoring them. There is a fine margin in-between, but it exists, as Nora Gomringer has demonstrated in ...
Keine Kunst Esterházy, Péter (Aus dem Ungarischen von Terézia Mora)
“Keine Kunst” (“No Art”) is the title, but it also contains high art. In his novel, Péter Esterházy approaches the biography and little foibles of his mother – this fascinating and ...
Der König der Dinge Bary, Tarik
Karim can converse with things. Hardly has he entered the new boarding school for the first time when all kinds of things turn to him with worries and concerns. But how is he supposed to be ...
Zwölf Ringe Andruchowytsch, Juri
The theory that great literature can only emerge in periods of historical transition is brilliantly borne out by the novel “Zwölf Ringe” (“Twelve Rings”) by the Ukrainian author, Juri ...
Eigentlich ein Heiratsantrag Marinic, Jagoda
Since the 1990s what is typically seen as “young literature” – not only by female authors – is primarily influenced by first person (female) narrators. Their narratives leave plenty of ...
Herznovelle Rabinowich, Julya
Heart operations are not infrequently traumatic experiences which leave deep psychological scars. In Julya Rabinowich’s Herznovelle (Heart Story) it is, though, a love trauma which the ...
Von Dschalalabad nach Bad Schallerbach Einzinger, Erwin
The rather tired humour of the echoing syllables in the title is already an example of the madcap toing and froing and toing that characterizes Erwin Einzinger’s writing. Two little arrows ...
Rauchernovelle Dahimène, Adelheid
As a non-smoker one comes to Rauchernovelle (Smoker’s Story) with mixed feelings. There is a woman sitting a train and complaining that she is forbidden to smoke. Should one feel sympathy here? ...
Wenn Kinder Steine ins Wasser werfen Bayer, Xaver
Endless stream of thought Xaver Bayer rebels against the full stop A man is waiting at Brussels Airport for his flight to leave. Never mind the gate. Naturally he passes the waiting ...
Eigenleben oder wie schreibt man eine Novelle Aigner, Christoph Wilhelm
Marina di Cecina in winter. A seaside resort without visitors, the houses by the beach locked and barricaded, in mothballs until the next season. Everything cold and damp, poorly heated or shut. ...
No God in Sight Tyrewala, Altaf
The Berliner Künstlerprogramm of DAAD writes about Atlaf Tyerwalas novel: Homesickness led this young Indian author to literature: born in 1977 in Mumbai (until ...
Fremdes Land Sautner, Thomas
In the tradition of literary dystopias such as George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Thomas Sautner bitingly describes a fictitious society in an unspecified location in ...
Andernorts Rabinovici, Doron
Doron Rabinovici was born in Tel Aviv and moved to Vienna at the age of three. What he writes has always been shaped by the tension between his life in Austria and his vital interest in Israel. ...
Schwester der Angst Mischkulnig, Lydia
It is the story of an obsession, which Lydia Mischkulnig describes with an absolutely pathological love of detail in her new novel Schwestern der Angst (Sisters of Fear). Renate and Marie are ...
Familie Salzmann Hackl, Erich
While literature often claims to show how the family history of an individual inevitably determines his fate, Erich Hackl keeps to real events, which are tragic enough and which he supplements ...
Die ganze Wahrheit Gstrein, Norbert
'Truth is something relative. And the whole truth all the more so. There are any number of versions of it. Some of them are protected by lawyers, others by priests.' Norbert Gstrein’s latest ...
Populäre Panoramen I Falkner, Brigitta
In "Populäre Panoramen I" (Popular Panoramas I) Brigitta Falkner offers as an author the twofold pleasure of reading and looking. Each double page is, as it were, a diptych of text and ...
Kopf aus den Wolken Cerha, Ruth
“Traveling means going away, Majana said, but upon our arrival in New York, on a street corner in Midtown Manhattan, I saw something else in her eyes and it made me afraid. Traveling also means ...
Bewegungsmelder Ballhausen, Thomas
"Don't cry - work!" This instruction was chosen by the author Rainald Goetz as the subtitle for his early novel, Irre (Mad). Hence the underlying theme of the work: existential ...
Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur Harper, Lee
Il serait d'abord bon de planter le décor: Alabama, les années 30. Z'imaginez le contexte social, moui? Le soleil brûle la peau, on entend des rires au loin... Oh salut Scout! Scout, c'est une ...
Betsy et l'empereur Rabin, Staton
Voila un roman qui m'a marqué quand j'étais plus jeune (il y a 5 ans, donc je devais avoir 11 ans), j'en garde un excellent souvenir et d'ailleurs, je n'arrive pas à me résoudre de le mettre ...
