Marlene Streeruwitz's new novel: an homage to New York
Nina Wagner, 56, a poet from Vienna, teaches in New York. While walking through her deeply personal New York, her whole life unfolds, and she reflects on her loved ones, her family and society with wisdom, humour and a healthy dose of self-irony. In doing so, she observes her US-American surroundings and finds unexpected insights into the problems she brought with her from Vienna. A violent act on the street turns her from an observer into a participant in this society, before events from Vienna catch up with her again and many mysteries are solved.
Marlene Streeruwitz's magnificent New York novel is a celebration of wandering and observing, a tribute to an intoxicating metropolis.
"As so often, Marlene Streeruwitz [...] succeeds masterfully in making the inner life of her protagonist tangible." - FAZ, Frauke Steffens
"After every break in reading the novel it's like coming home when you pick up ‘Resolutions.’ again." - Tagesspiegel, Gerrit Bartels
"It is linguistically so fragile and intellectually so stimulating that it really shows us the fundamental problems of our modern constitution [...].a gripping novel about the dilemma between law and justice." - rbb radio drei, Frank Dietschreit
"How does Marlene Streeruwitz always manage to be exactly where the world is?" - Kurier, Barbara Beer
"a musical language that stays in the ear" - Auslese (Podcast), Andrea Zuleger
