Extinction
Zusammenfassung: Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as 'Austria's finest postwar writer' and by George Steiner as 'one of the masters of contemporary European fiction.' Faber Finds is proud to reissue a selection of...
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Zusammenfassung: Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as 'Austria's finest postwar writer' and by George Steiner as 'one of the masters of contemporary European fiction.' Faber Finds is proud to reissue a selection of four of Bernhard's finest novels. Extinction, Bernhard's last published novel, is the story of Franz-Josef Murau-intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family-who lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister's wedding on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg; and he must decide its fate.
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Five
"A woman's corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles of her feet. Detective inspector Beatrice Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map coordinates....
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"A woman's corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles of her feet. Detective inspector Beatrice Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map coordinates. These lead to a series of gruesome discoveries as she and her colleague Florin Wenninger embark on a bloody trail - a modern-day scavenger hunt using GPS navigation devices to locate hidden caches. The "owner" of these unofficial, unpublished geocaches is a highly calculating and elusive fiend who leaves his victims' body-parts sealed in plastic bags, complete with riddles that culminate in a five-stage plot. Kaspary herself becomes an unwilling pawn in the perpetrator's game of cat and mouse as she risks all to uncover the motives behind the murderer's actions. Five is definitely not a book for the faint-hearted, but it delivers great suspense, unexpected plot twists, and multi-dimensional characters"--(Provided by publisher.)
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Night duty
A doctor's literary autopsy of her unhappy family in Austria. As she cares for her dying father, she describes his alcoholic violence, her mother's attempt at suicide and her own unhappy childhood--all with the clinical eye of her profession. A first...
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A doctor's literary autopsy of her unhappy family in Austria. As she cares for her dying father, she describes his alcoholic violence, her mother's attempt at suicide and her own unhappy childhood--all with the clinical eye of her profession. A first novel by a Swiss psychiatrist.
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Last house before the mountain
a novel
Zusammenfassung: Struggling against starvation in the harsh alpine climate of western Austria, Maria tries to provide for her family during World War I and faces a desperate choice that will affect the lives of her family for generations.
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Zusammenfassung: Struggling against starvation in the harsh alpine climate of western Austria, Maria tries to provide for her family during World War I and faces a desperate choice that will affect the lives of her family for generations.
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