Vienna

Corine Award for Best Debut 2005
English translation shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007

From this tale's very beginning - the birth of the narrator's father in the middle of a bridge party - the reader is plunged headlong into the world of Vienna, a novel crowded with voices, characters, tragedy, and joy.

The disintegration of history and identity in the 20th century is seen through the adventures of one family - half-Jewish Viennese, split apart by the Nazi invasion and sent out into the world. Dispensing with linear narrative, the story loops forwards and back to follow each member on their winding course. Their experiences encompass fraudsters, footballers, fools, and fur coats as the narrative moves from Austria to London and from Canada to the battlefields of Burma. This is a landmark European novel of impressive reach and power whose readership will spread as widely as the family whose story it tells.

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  • Publisher: Kiepenheuer&Witsch
  • Release: 18.02.2005
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-03465-3
  • 432 Pages
  • Author: Eva Menasse
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Eva Menasse

Eva Menasse , born in Vienna in 1970, started out as a journalist and made her fiction debut in 2005 with the family novel Vienna . This was followed by other novels and short stories, which have won numerous awards and been translated into multiple languages. Eva Menasse is increasingly active as an essayist, for which she received the Ludwig Börne Prize in 2019. Her last novel, Darkenbloom was a bestseller and has been translated into nine languages.