Marlen Haushofer

The Fifth Year (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Whiteside, Shaun

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A haunting story of a childhood in the Austrian countryside from the author of The Wall

The Fifth Year follows a five-year-old girl, Marili, through each season of a single year on her grandparents' farm in the mountains of Austria. Her grand-mother is a quiet, melancholic woman; her grandfather, with his calm, cheerful disposition, radiates warmth. Marili's parents have presumably died in the war, and she is left to discoverwith curiosity, wonder, and fearthe beauty and darkness of a quiet pastoral life. Sinister elements lurk beneath the surface of The Fifth Year, in Marili's dreams and fantasies, and this deceptively simple tale of childhood, told in effervescent and evocative prose, bubbles to life in Marlen Haushofer's inimitably alarming style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811239998
• Artikelnr.: 75601439

Autorenporträt

Marlen Haushofer (19201970) was an Austrian author of short stories, novels, radio plays, and children's books. Her work has had a strong influence on many German-language writers, such as the Nobel Prizewinner Elfriede Jelinek, who dedicated one of her plays to her. The relaunch of her classic The Wallacclaimed "strange and wondrous" by James Wood in The New Yorkerwas a major literary sensation.