Love, injury, deception, uncertainty, and self-sacrifice: debut author Nadja Spiegel is hardly the first person to write about these things, but the way she has written about them is incomparable. Constructing virtuoso depictions of life in a style that lets them get right under your skin, Spiegel's precise, brittle, seemingly straightforward prose paints a vibrant picture of human compromise and cooperation with both humor and restraint. Bittersweet, made up of just a few simple strokes, these stories herald the arrival of an important new voice in European literature.

About the Author
Nadja Spiegel was born in 1992 in Lustenau/Vorarlberg, and has published both prose and poetry. She won the Meta-Merz-Preis for young Austrian authors in 2009. Rachel McNicholl is a freelance translator based in Dublin, Ireland. She studied German, Italian and French for her BA, went on to do an MA in German literature, then side-stepped from research into publishing and journalism, where translation was always a big element of her work. She lived in Zurich and Hamburg before returning to Ireland. Apart from translating, she currently works as a freelance editor, a guest lecturer and an adult literacy tutor.

Reviews
It's the tone of these stories, the way they were constructed, that highlights this author's exceptional talent. KULTUR Spiegel... writes of friendship and of growing up. Nothing new, on the face of it, but what's exceptional in this book are the details. It's worth your while to have a look. -- Emily Walton Falter



Book Information
ISBN 9781628970623
Author Nadja Spiegel
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
Weight(grams) 453g