Where Orpheus Lies Buried
Ilija Trojanow and Christian Muhrbeck have travelled the length and breadth of the Balkans for years, exploring the region’s varied facets, from its archaic culture through the blood-soaked ...
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Ilja Trojanow, born in 1965 in Sofia, grew up in Kenya and now lives in Vienna. His work has won numerous awards, among them the 2008 Berlin Prize for Literature. Previous publications at Hanser include: Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall (1996), Hundezeiten (1999), An den inneren Ufern Indiens (2003), Der Weltensammler (2006), Der entfesselte Globus (2008) and EisTau (2011). Read more on: http://trojanow.de/.
IceMelt
Zeno is a glaciologist who has dedicated his working life to the study of an Alpine glacier. But during the course of one hot summer he has to confront the realisation that he is powerless to ...
moreThe Assault on Liberty
Everyone wants to get hold of our personal information. The state wants to know the biological demographics of its population. Marketing strategists can't get enough information on their ...
moreThe Raging Globe
Bulgaria-born, raised in Africa, educated in Germany, Ilija Trojanow lives now, after long sojourns in Arabia, Africa and India, in the Austrian capital of Vienna. His only home is the German ...
moreThe Collector of Worlds
British officer Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), hero of Ilija Trojanow's novel, is one of the strangest characters in a century rich in eccentrics: rejecting the comforts of 19th century colonial ...
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British officer Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), hero of Ilija Trojanow's novel, is one of the strangest characters in a century rich in eccentrics: rejecting the comforts of 19th century colonial ...
moreOn the River Banks of India
The River Ganges, called Ganga by the Indians, has a thousand names. Hindu priests regard it as a sin simply to call it a river. It is the source of the world, its water holy and healing and ...
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