Maybe This Time

Guardian Paperback of the Year 2011

A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria’s most critically acclaimed authors.

A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbours. 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.

"Not since Julio Cortazar’s game of Hopscotch ... has an author so daringly undertaken to challenge the reader." The Independent

"Hotschnig’s stories have the weird, creepy and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams." The Guardian

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  • Publisher: Kiepenheuer&Witsch
  • Release: 20.02.2006
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-03685-5
  • 128 Pages
  • Author: Alois Hotschnig
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Alois Hotschnig Maybe This Time
Portrait von Alois Hotschnig
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Alois Hotschnig

Alois Hotschnig , born in Carinthia in 1959, lives as a freelance author in Innsbruck. In 1992 he was awarded the Prize of the Province of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt, in the same year his novel "Leonardo's Hands" was published, for which he received the Anna Seghers Prize. In 2000 his second novel "Ludwig's Room" was published. In 2002 he was awarded the Italo Svevo Prize. In addition to his novels, he has written several collections of short stories, most recently "Running Away is Easier While Sitting Down" (2009). He was awarded the Erich Fried Prize for "Maybe This Time" and the Gert Jonke Prize for his narrative work. The books have been translated into numerous languages. Alois Hotschnig also writes plays and radio plays.  

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