Among the Bieresch

Among the Bieresch
Klaus Hoffer
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Paperback
h203 x 127mm - 368pg
11 May 2021 UK
International import eta 10-30 days
9780857428400
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Young Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empire-a surreal postwar Austria. His uncle has died, and according to the tradition required by his people-the Bieresch-Hans must assume his uncle' s place for one year. In a series of interactions with the village' s tragicomic characters and their contradictory stories and scriptures, the reluctant Hans must face a world both familiar and alien. Among the Bieresch is Hans' s story-one of bizarre customs, tangled relationships, and the struggle between two mystical sects. The novel, translated by Isabel Fargo Cole, is a German cult favorite and a masterwork of culture shock fiction that revels in exploring oppressive cultural baggage and assimilation. Readers will encounter here an amalgam drawing from Kafka, Borges, and Beckett, among others, combining to make Klaus Hoffer' s novel a world utterly its own. "One of the few works that will loom from the dust of this century one day. "-Urs Widmer
Klaus Hoffer is a German writer and translator. Isabel Fargo Cole is a US-born, Berlin-based writer and translator.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780857428400
Published: 11 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London
Publisher: Seagull Books London
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 25mm
Pages: 368

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