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71.

Lena : unser Dorf und der Krieg by Käthe Recheis DE

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Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Das Buch beschreibt wie das österreichische Mädchen Lena die Nazizeit erlebt. Es werden viele Themen angesprochen, z.B. der Anschluß Österreichs, der Holocaust, Euthanasie, Bombenangriffe, Hitlerjugend u.v.m.

72.

Lust by Elfriede Jelinek EN

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Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
In post-World War II Austria, Gerti, a woman on the verge of a breakdown due to her husband's relentless sexual attentions, wanders away from home one day and is rescued by an ambitious young man who turns out to be much like her husband.



75.

The Case of the Lamp That Went Out by Auguste Groner EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Reprint of the detective novel starring Joseph Müller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police.

76.

Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Here is the story of lives painfully intertwined. An unnamed narrator is haunted by nightmarish memories of her father and desperate for the attentions of her lover. Her only companion is the androgynous Malina with whom she lives, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an ominous influence. Plunging towards its riveting finale, Malina lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourse between men and women.
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77.

Blackout : A Novel by Marc Elsberg EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
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

78.

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer EN

Rating: 4.5 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Recounts how the author an Austrian, escaped from the English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people.

79.

Donkergroen bijna zwart by Mareike Fallwickl NL

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Moritz en Raffaël zijn van jongs af aan onafscheidelijk maar als op de middelbare school Johanna zich bij hen voegt, leidt dat tot een fatale vriendschap.

80.

Das Licht ist hier viel heller by Mareike Fallwickl DE

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Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
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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