Einstein's Brain
Albert Einstein died shortly after midnight on 18 April 1955 at Princeton Hospital, New Jersey. According to his wishes, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered at an unknown location. But ...
moreFranzobel
Franzobel born 1967, is one of Austria's most popular writers. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (1995), the Arthur Schnitzler Prize (2002) and the Nicolas Born Prize (2017). Most recent publications by Zsolnay are the novels Das Floß der Medusa which was shortlisted for the German book prize 2017 and won the Bavarian Book Prize in 2017, and Die Eroberung Amerikas (2021) and the crime novels Groschens Grab (2015) and Rechtswalzer (2019).
The Conquest of America
After "The Raft of the Medusa" comes the next major historical novel by Franzobel.
Hernando de Soto accompanied Pizarro to Peru, taught the Inca king chess and Spanish, impregnated his ...
Waltzing to the Right
A bar owner innocently falls into the clutches of the law, a murdered man is found, and the new government plans to stage the social event of the season as a propaganda spectacle.
Gin, ...
The Raft of the Medusa
Three barrels of wine, one barrel of water and a bag of rusks for 147 people on raft adrift in the ocean: Franzobel’s impressive novel about the cost of survival.
July 18, 1816, ...
Groschen’s Tomb
The murder of a retired bookseller takes Commissioner Groschen into the world of publishing, behind the walls of a monastery, to Sarajevo and among former commune members – but in the end ...
moreViennese Miracles
He was Austria’s fastest runner – then he is caught doping. Shortly afterwards he plunged to his death from the window of a fourth floor apartment. But did he jump or was he pushed? A case ...
moreWhat Men Get up to While Women are in the Bathroom
Pudgy and knock-kneed, the waistband of his trousers pulled up to his navel, Hildebrand Kilgus – genereally known as Hildy – isn’t the sort of man you’d expect to elicit moans of pleasure ...
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