Books set in Austria (36)


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A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler EN

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Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
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Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are. Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he... continue

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Amok by Stefan Zweig EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
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A new pocket edition of this Conradian tale of maddening desire, from the master of the novella On a sweltering ocean-liner travelling from India to Europe a passenger tells his story: the tale of a doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his duty and the pull of his emotions; a tale of power and desire, pride and shame and a headlong flight into folly. This is one the most intense and incisive of the novellas which brought Stefan Zweig to worldwide fame.

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Atrapa a la liebre by Lana Bastašic ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Croatia flag Croatia
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Sara camina por St. Stephen’s Gardens, uno de los lugares más bellos de Dublín, su nuevo hogar. Suena su celular, y escucha una voz surgida de los ecos de los tiempos, de la lejana penumbra de Bosnia: ¡Lejla! La urge: “Tienes que venir por mí enseguida. Tengo que ir a Viena”. Ante la sorpresa, reparos y confusión de Sara, Lejla pronuncia las palabras mágicas: “Sara, Armin está en Viena.”. Y Sara ya no duda: inmediatamente compra un pasaje a Zagreb. Sara y Lejla atraviesan la bruma de Bosnia, y mientras recorren la ... continue

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Blackout : A Novel by Marc Elsberg EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
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"Fast, tense, thrilling -- and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended." --Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series This is no accident. This is no act of God. This is Blackout. A terrifyingly plausible million-copy selling debut disaster thriller. When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. ... continue

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Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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Craig Thompson - the award-winning creator of Blankets and Good-Bye, Chunky Rice - spent three months travelling through Barcelona, the Alps, and France, as well as Morocco, where he was researching his next graphic novel, Habibi. Spontaneous sketches and a travelogue diary document his adventures and quiet moments, creating a raw and intimate portrait of countries, culture and the wandering artist.

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Carta breve para un largo adiós by Peter Handke ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
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Peter Handke (1942) es uno de los escritores actuales más importantes, polémicos y populares en lengua alemana. Publicada en 1972, CARTA BREVE PARA UN LARGO ADIÓS adopta, aparentemente, una de las formas más clásicas de la literatura alemana, la del «Entwicklungsroman» (la novela de formación de un carácter a través de la experiencia vivida). Pero lo que Handke describe en esta novela tradicional y revolucionaria, realista y romántica, relato de aventuras y de formación, que tiene América como telón de fondo y catalizador, no es tanto un viaje como un descenso; no una realidad, sino “su” reali... continue

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Contra el viento del norte by Daniel Glattauer ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
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En la vida diaria ¿hay lugar más seguro para los deseos secretos que el mundo virtual? Leo Leike recibe mensajes por error de una desconocida llamada Emmi. Como es educado, le contesta y como él la atrae, ella escribe de nuevo. Así, poco a poco, se entabla un diálogo en el que no hay marcha atrás. Parece solo una cuestión de tiempo que se conozcan en persona, pero la idea los altera tan profundamente que prefieren posponer el encuentro. ¿Sobrevivirían las emociones enviadas, recibidas y guardadas un encuentro «real»? «Una novela dramática, loca, tierna, maravillosa y sobre todo emocionante...U... continue

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Das Licht ist hier viel heller by Mareike Fallwickl DE

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Ein soghafter Roman über das Gelingen und Scheitern von Beziehungen, über Macht und Machtmissbrauch, über Männer und Frauen und alles, was sie einander antun. Maximilian Wenger und seine Tochter Zoey haben nicht viel gemeinsam. Er liebt den Ruhm, den er einst als gefeierter Schriftsteller genossen hat. Sie möchte auf keinen Fall in der Öffentlichkeit stehen. Als Wenger Briefe einer unbekannten Frau erhält, die eigentlich an seinen Vormieter gerichtet sind, beginnen er und Zoey unabhängig voneinander zu lesen. Es sind Briefe voller Brutalität und ... continue

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Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker by Joseph Roth DE

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine
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his book, one of the most haunting things that Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died. Like Andreas, the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris, but this is not an autobiographical confession. It is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject-matter.

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Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless by Robert Musil DE

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Roman speelt op militaire kostschool.