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Born 1967 · Austria

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    Deutscher Buchpreis 2017 · Shortlist

    Das Floß der Medusa

    Title translated by AI:“The Raft of the Medusa”

    Franzobel · 50 when first published

    Novel · 588 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:July 1816: off the coast of West Africa, a ship finds a raft carrying the last fifteen of 147 people abandoned after the frigate Medusa sank. The ship's boy Victor tells how this tragedy came about.