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Beneath Drachenwand Mountain
Mondsee, Austria, 1944
Life and love in the shadow of history
Veit Kolbe spends a few months by Lake Mondsee at the foot of the Drachenwand mountain in Austria where he meets two ...
Arno Geiger
Arno Geiger, born in 1968, lives in Vienna and Wolfurt. His work is published by Hanser, most recently Alles über Sally (novel, 2010), Der alte König in seinem Exil (2011) (English translation: The Old King in His Exile) and Selbstporträt mit Flusspferd (novel, 2015). He has been awarded the Hebel Prize (2008), the Hölderlin Prize (2011), the Literary Prize of the Adenauer Foundation (2011) and the Alemannischer Literaturpreis (2017). His first award was the German Book Prize for his novel Es geht uns gut (2005).
Self-Portrait with Pygmy Hippo
A story of separation, love, and a hippo that knows nothing about either. Arno Geiger writes about the difficulties of growing up in a bewildering world.
Twenty-two-year-old Julian ...
The Old King in Exile
If you lose your power of thought, what kind of life is that? In this deeply moving book, Arno Geiger tells the story of his father's life - the story of a man whose vitality and wit cannot be ...
moreAll About Sally
Sally isn't very nice to her husband and she doesn't treat her lover much better. But she's smart, charming and witty – exactly the sort of woman you want to know everything about: a dazzling ...
moreDon't Forget Anna
After a string of defeats, Lukas bids farewell to Berlin and, in keeping with his track record, spends the last night before his return to Vienna on the spare sofa of a bone- weary waitress. In ...
moreWe are doing well
Love affairs and deaths, war and peace, the daily grind and New Year's Eve. Arno Geiger tells us the story of three couples from one family, whose private chaos mirrors the larger political one - ...
moreNice Friends
A village with small box houses, villas, a tennis court, a water tank and a coal mine. For years, an accordionist and a boy have played music before the entrance to the mine, until a pit disaster ...
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