Name: Maybe This Time

Author: Alois Hotschnig
Year: 2006
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Short Stories, Fiction

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ISBNs:
9780956284051
0956284051		 A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria's most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbors. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds dolls resembling himself as a boy. Mesmerizing and haunting stories about loss of identity in the modern world.

Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'I love Kafka and here we have a Kafkaesque sense of alienation - not to mention narrative experiments galore! Outwardly normal events slip into drama before they tip into horror. These oblique tales exert a fascinating hold over the reader.' Meike Ziervogel, Publisher

First published under the original German title: Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2006


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