The Sweetness of Life by Hochgatterer, Paulus
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Item specifics
- Condition
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
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- Product Group
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9781623658533
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Quercus NA
ISBN-10
1623658535
ISBN-13
9781623658533
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201635564
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sweetness of Life
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Psychological, Thrillers / Crime, Thrillers / Suspense
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"This is a scrupulous, serious novel, in which crime and detection, though convincing, are mechanisms allowing the author to examine the psychology of his characters... an impressive, cheerless tale."'e" Jessica Mann, Literary Review, "[A] remarkable thriller . . . Skillfully mixing the observations of these two middle-aged kindred spirits-experienced enough to have lost their illusions, but not their humanity-with those of some of the more damaged townsfolk, Hochgatterer, himself a Vienna child psychiatrist, tells a suspenseful and shattering story with an elegance of expression that matches his exceptional insight into hearts and minds." 'e" Publisher's Weekly, "An extraordinary book, a disquieting psychological shocker. . . . This is not a conventional linear narrative; instead Hochgatterer presents . . . a disturbing collection of criminals and the mentally ill. Is the perpetrator of this horrific murder already known to Kovacs or is he one of Horn's patients? The grim tale is elegantly, subtly told in Jamie Bulloch's smooth translation from the original German." Β --Susanna Yage, The Sunday Telegraph "You might say that, for Hochgatterer, the standard features of the crime genre are just a framework for the really interesting stuff: not how people die, but how they live. His rather abstruse approach makes this a fascinating but demanding read: a truly stimulating find, but perhaps not one for the beach." -- Jonathan Gibbs, The Independent "Beautifully written in cool, clear prose." -- Scotland on Sunday "This is a scrupulous, serious novel, in which crime and detection, though convincing, are mechanisms allowing the author to examine the psychology of his characters . . . an impressive, cheerless tale." --Jessica Mann, Literary Review, "You might say that, for Hochgatterer, the standard features of the crime genre are just a framework for the really interesting stuff: not how people die, but how they live. His rather abstruse approach makes this a fascinating but demanding read: a truly stimulating find, but perhaps not one for the beach."'e" Jonathan Gibbs, The Independent, "You might say that, for Hochgatterer, the standard features of the crime genre are just a framework for the really interesting stuff: not how people die, but how they live. His rather abstruse approach makes this a fascinating but demanding read: a truly stimulating find, but perhaps not one for the beach."-- Jonathan Gibbs, The Independent, "An extraordinary book, a disquieting psychological shocker.... This is not a conventional linear narrative; instead Hochgatterer presents... a disturbing collection of criminals and the mentally ill. Is the perpetrator of this horrific murder already known to Kovacs or is he one of Horn's patients? The grim tale is elegantly, subtly told in Jamie Bulloch's smooth translation from the original German."-- Susanna Yage, The Sunday Telegraph, "An extraordinary book, a disquieting psychological shocker.... This is not a conventional linear narrative; instead Hochgatterer presents... a disturbing collection of criminals and the mentally ill. Is the perpetrator of this horrific murder already known to Kovacs or is he one of Horn's patients? The grim tale is elegantly, subtly told in Jamie Bulloch's smooth translation from the original German."'e" Susanna Yage, The Sunday Telegraph, "This is a scrupulous, serious novel, in which crime and detection, though convincing, are mechanisms allowing the author to examine the psychology of his characters... an impressive, cheerless tale."-- Jessica Mann, Literary Review
Dewey Decimal
833.914
Synopsis
A German bestseller, winner of the European Union Prize for Literature, and longlisted for the German Book Prize in 2006, Paulus Hochgatterer has created a chilling psychological thriller a group of damaged people living in a pleasant and seemingly tranquil Austrian village. It's the Christmas holiday, the presents have been opened, and a six-year-old girl is drinking cocoa and playing with her grandfather. The doorbell rings, and the old man gets up. The next time the girl sees her grandfather, he is lying by the barn, his skull broken; his face a red pulp against the white snow. From that time on, she does not speak a single word. Along with Detective Superintendent Ludwig Kovacs, Raffael Horn, the psychiatrist engaged to treat the silent child, reluctantly becomes involved in solving the murder. Their parallel researches sweep through the town: a young mother who believes her new-born child is the devil; a Benedictine monk who uses his iPod to drown the voices in his head; a high-spending teenager who tortures cats. With his background as a child psychiatrist, Hochgatterer draws back the veil of normality and presents a disconcerting portrait of a winter-held town filled with unsavory inhabitants.
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