A sense of the beginning
Gstrein, Norbert, 1961-2016
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A bomb threat is made at a provincial Austrian village station. An unattended bag placed next to three messages: 'Repent!', 'First and final warning!' and 'Next time it will be for real!' But no-one takes it too seriously, not even the police. Then a teacher in the village thinks he recognises his favourite pupil Daniel on a wanted notice in a newspaper. The teacher befriended Daniel when they spent a summer together at his house by the river, but Daniel has been growing increasingly obsessive of late, losing himself in religious and political dogmatism after a trip to Israel. For his teacher, this marks the start of a spiral of introspection and self doubt, reinforced by his inability to feel at home anywhere after spending several years in Istanbul. What's more, he is suddenly swamped by memories of the pivotal moments of his own adolescence, which floor him completely.
Main title:
A sense of the beginning / Norbert Gstrein ; translated by Julian Evans.
Author:
Gstrein, Norbert, 1961-, authorEvans, Julian, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2016.
Collation:
320 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780857053589 (pbk)
Dewey class:
833.92
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
1836133