Clemens J. Setz

Indigo

Übersetzer: Benjamin, Ross

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the Austrian state of Styria lies the Helianau Institute, a boarding school for children born with a mysterious condition known as Indigo syndrome. Anyone who comes near them immediately suffers from nausea and vertigo. Clemens Setz-a fictionalized doppelgänger of the author-is a young math teacher who loses his job at the school after attempting to investigate the mysterious "relocations" of several children. Fourteen years later, Robert, a former student, discovers a newspaper article about Setz's acquittal for the murder of an animal abuser. Could there be a connection between this story, which continues to haunt Robert, and the puzzling events of the past? DeLillo-esque in its exploration of alienation and anxiety, Indigo weaves together bizarre historical anecdotes, such as Edison's electrocution of an elephant, with pop cultural marginalia and pseudoscience to create a "literary work that makes its own laws . . . rich in dialogue and variety, amusing and anecdotal, but also brutal and unfathomable" (Der Spiegel).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780871402684
• ISBN-10: 0871402688
• Artikelnr.: 40448476

Autorenporträt

Clemens J. Setz is the author of two previous novels and the winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Ernst-Willner-Preis at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2008. He lives in Austria.

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