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FOREIGN RIGHTS AUTUMN 2013 - Hanser Literaturverlage

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F I C T I O N<br />

Must we really choose between the stark absolutes<br />

of good and evil, between right and wrong?<br />

A great novel about the eternal question of how<br />

we should live, about home and exile, and about<br />

the fatal yearning for purity and innocence.<br />

© Peter Hassiepen<br />

Longlisted for the German Book Prize <strong>2013</strong><br />

A bomb is discovered in a provincial Austrian village station. Next to it is a note that says<br />

simply »Repent!«, but no one takes it seriously, not even the police. Then a teacher in the<br />

village thinks he recognizes his favourite pupil Daniel on a wanted poster. The teacher<br />

befriended Daniel when they spent a summer together at his house by the river, but<br />

Daniel has been growing increasingly obsessive of fate, losing himself in religious and<br />

political dogmatism after a trip to Israel. For his teacher, this marks the start of a spiral<br />

of introspection and self doubt, reinforced by his inability to feel at home anywhere after<br />

spending several years in Istanbul. What’s more, he is suddenly swamped by memories of<br />

the pivotal moments of his own adolescence, which floor him completely.<br />

Was it Daniel’s love for Judith and his fascination with an American fire-and-brimstone<br />

evangelist who is passing through on his way to Jerusalem or could it have been the complex<br />

relationship between the two of them that led the boy astray?<br />

Norbert Gstrein examines the crucial decisions we take as we start out in life and the omnipresent<br />

reference points of childhood. This is a moving and absorbing story, told by an<br />

unparalleled author at the height of his powers.<br />

Norbert Gstrein<br />

Eine Ahnung vom Anfang<br />

Beginnings<br />

Novel. 352 pages.<br />

Hardcover<br />

Publication date: July <strong>2013</strong><br />

Norbert Gstrein<br />

was born in 1961 and lives<br />

in Hamburg. <strong>Hanser</strong> has<br />

published his previous<br />

books, Die Winter im Süden<br />

(2008), Die Englischen<br />

Jahre (new edition 2009),<br />

Das Handwerk des Tötens<br />

(new edition 2010) and<br />

Die Ganze Wahrheit (2010)<br />

as well as a volume of his<br />

earlier stories In der Luft<br />

(2011).<br />

»Gstrein’s prose is muscular and compelling … highly recommended.« The Independent<br />

»With Eine Ahnung vom Anfang, Norbert Gstrein has created a seamlessly perfect piece of writing, a book that<br />

stands comparison with his 1999 masterpiece Die Englischen Jahre.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung<br />

Sales to Foreign Countries (backlist titles)<br />

BG (Atlantis), HR (Fraktura), F (Teper), I (Einaudi), LIT (Pasaulis), NL (Cossée), N (Aschehoug),<br />

PL (Czarne), P (Difel), RU (Symposion), E (Tusquets), TR (Can), UK/USA (Harvill, McLehose Press)<br />

F I C T I O N 6<br />

F O R E I G N R I G H T S HANSER

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