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'A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it, fearful it might disappear' Patti SmithThe war is over but Alexander Jessiersky, a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist, is haunted by guilt over the neighbour he inadvertently sent to a...

While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to...

This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of...

When her cousin and wife fail to return from a walk, this story takes a sinister turn to a quest of survival A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails...

If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living? From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt's cemetery, the town's late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps the one in which they left...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250767301Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 6mm

At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisfied with his lot, and he even finds an ample widow to marry. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527631Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation'Both a great anti-war novel and a love story, full of tenderness - as around it the world shatters.' - Der Spiegel, 'Novel of the Year'The year is 1944 and Veit Kolbe, a young German soldier,...

Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend's daughter, Stella, into their already tense and tumultuous household. Staring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889661801Author Robert SeethalerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879834019Author Don GaborFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Blue Danube PressPublisher Blue Danube PressWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879834002Author Don GaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Blue Danube PressPublisher Blue Danube PressWeight(grams) 426g

Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of Austria in 1813. A young theology student, returning from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572412330Author Gerhard RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 231g