Zeichnungen

Across five critically acclaimed novels, Reinhard Kaiser- Mühlecker has written an epic about human guilt. In these three stories, he distills his existential questions: how do we become guilty? How do failures, omissions, rumors and lies weave themselves into the fabric of our lives? And are we all inevitably caught up in their tangled threads? A betrayal in the face of fear, an act of malice and a devious act of friend- ship cause a calamity whose consequences reverberate through the passing of time. With poetically compelling force, Kaiser-Mühlecker tells of our longing to escape the old stories of our past and begin our life anew.

“Reading his work is a profound joy.”
Simon Strauß, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 19.02.2015
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-002407-7
  • 304 Pages
  • Author: Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker
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Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker

Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker (b. 1982) is a distinctive voice in contemporary German-language literature. He combines his writing career with managing a working farm in Upper Austria, bringing a grounded authenticity to his depictions of rural existence. He is the author of numerous acclaimed novels and short stories. His work has received multiple major literary awards, including the 2024 Austrian Book Prize for his novel Brennende Felder ( Burning Fields ). The late Siegfried Lenz praised his prose, and Nobel laureate Peter Handke places his work in the lineage of Adalbert Stifter and Knut Hamsun.