Viktor Helps
As a child, Viktor himself was a refugee – now he tries to help others. Images from the past mix with those of the present. And then the news arrives: he has a daughter he knew nothing ...
moreVladimir Vertlib
Vladimir Vertlib born in 1966 in Leningrad, emigrated with his family to Israel in 1971, moved to Austria in 1981 and now lives as a freelance writer in Salzburg. Novels published by Deuticke include Zwischenstationen (1999), Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur (2001), Schimons Schweigen (2012) and Lucia Binar und die russische Seele, which was longlisted for the 2015 German Book Prize.
Lucia Binar and the Russian Soul
An old lady who refuses to surrender. A lovable character, bursting with energy – especially when she’s set her mind on something.
Lucia Binar is 83, and she is furious. Her ...
Shimon’s Silence
Why have the narrator’s father and his former best friend Shimon not spoken to each other for the past thirty years? Back in the Soviet Union they fought side by side in the underground ...
moreOn the Morning of the Twelfth Day
Astrid Heisenberg and her grandfather, in very different ways, both have a close relationship with the Orient. Astrid has a weakness for Middle Eastern men. But Khaled, the Iraqi father of her ...
moreMy First Murderer
In the title story, "My First Murderer", a man with a previously spotless record is sentenced to eight years in prison for manslaughter. Are his acts in any way connected to his father's role in ...
moreThe Remarkable Memory of Rosa Masur
"The Remarkable Memory of Rosa Masur" tells the story of a Russian-Jewish family spanning the pre-Revolution period to the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Rosa Masur is 92 years old when she, her ...
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