Books set in Austria (67)
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A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
“[An] elegant historical mystery . . . stylishly presented and intelligently resolved” set at the dawn of psychoanalysis (The New York Times Book Review). In Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, Max Liebermann, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud’s, is at the forefront of psychoanalysis, practicing the controversial new science with all the skill of a master detective. Every dream, inflection, or slip of tongue in his “hysterical” patients has meaning and reveals some hidden truth. When beautiful medium Charlotte Löwenstein dies under extraordinary circumstances, Max’s good friend, Detecti... continue
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams : A Life Story by Peter Handke EN
AustriaDescription:
The avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright examines his mother's life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, ending in suicide; while recording his rage over the problems that his mother left for him to solve after her death.
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A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler EN
Description:
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
Description:
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
CroatiaDescription:
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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Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti EN
BulgariaDescription:
Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of Peter Kien, a scholarly recluse who lives among and for his great library. The destruction of Kien through the instrument of the illiterate, brutish housekeeper he marries constitutes the plot of the book. The best writers of our time have been concerned with the horror of the modern world--one thinks of Kafka, to whom Canetti has often been compared. But Auto-da-Fé stands as a completely original,... continue
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Berättelse om ett liv by Peter Handke SV
Description:
I Berättelse om ett liv skriver Peter Handke om sin mammas tröstlösa liv och självmord i början av sjuttiotalet. Han berättar om att vara det första barnet med "fel" man, om ett äktenskap som faller samman och om en uppslitande tillvaro i Österrike och krigets och efterkrigstidens Berlin. Det är ett liv som ingen reagerar på, och som till slut går mot sin upplösning.
Handkes berättelse är också en reflexion över det som berättas, över svårigheterna att skriva.
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Blackout : A Novel by Marc Elsberg EN
Description:
"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
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
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
Description:
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