A 1960s Austrian housewife is forced to re-examine her past when pages from old diaries begin to arrive mysteriously in the letter box at her family home. Each day after the windows are clean and the baking is done, she forces herself to read and burn the evidence of her troubled youth. The Loft, pu[...]
Considered her greatest literary achievement, Marlen Haushofer's The Wall is the story of one quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human on Earth. Surmising her solitude to be the result of a too successful military experiment, she begins the terrifyin[...]
Growing up in 20s Austria, the tomboy daughter of a forester struggles to comprehend the overwhelming adult world while the impending advent of Nazism threatens to eclipse the traditional life in her family's mountain village. For fans of The Wall, the first ever English translation of Nowhere Endin[...]
Ein unnachahmliches Gleichnis für das unüberwindliche Einsamsein
?Wenn mich jemand nach den zehn wichtigsten Büchern in meinem Leben fragen würde, dann gehörte dieses auf jeden Fall dazu.? Elke Heidenreich in ?Lesen?[...]
En kvinna ska tillbringa några dagar i en stuga i bergen med sin kusin och hennes man. Strax efter att de kommit fram, åker paret till närmaste by men de kommer aldrig tillbaka. När kvinnan går ut för att leta efter dem, stöter hon emot en osynlig vägg, bakom vilken allt är dött - djur, m�[...]