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More Than Just a Foreigner
»Now they’re coming to take Jakob away« was the first sentence of Gstrein’s first novel, published in 1988. From this starting point, he traces an arc to the present day and sheds light on ...
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Norbert Gstrein, born in 1961 in Tyrol, lives in Hamburg. His award-winning work is published by Carl Hanser Verlag; his most recent novels are The Coming Years (2018) and When I Was Young (2019), which was awarded the Austrian Book Prize.
Four Day, Three Nights
Of all the men in her life, no one loves Ines more than Elias. Only – he’s her brother. He has drawn in every lover his sister has ever had and then pushed them away again. When the world ...
moreThe Second Jacob
“The question preoccupying Gstrein is how much a person can know about themselves, their unfathomable depths and those of others.” Christoph Schröder, DIE ZEIT
“Of course ...
When I was young
At the beginning there was just a kiss. But is there any such thing as just a kiss? It takes Franz many years to unravel the events of a single night during his youth. Hungry for life and longing ...
moreThe Years to Come
With masterful clarity, Norbert Gstrein writes about finding ourselves
Richard is at the peak of his life and yet running away: from his wife, although he once loved her, from his ...
In the Free World
Norbert Gstrein gives us a powerful novel about a man’s life and death – and why it concerns us all. He tells the story of John, an American Jew and former volunteer in the Israeli army, who ...
moreBeginnings
A bomb is discovered in a provincial Austrian village station. Next to it is a note that says simply »Repent!«, but no one takes it seriously, not even the police. Then a teacher in the village ...
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