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Flughafenfische
“Airport Fish” (title translated by AI)
Angelika Overath (born 1957)
English editions
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In the placelessness of an airport, the lives of three people cross. A weary magazine photographer, in front of the reef aquarium in the transit hall, is overcome by a whirl of fragmented travel images from Africa and Asia and of memories. She finds a strange closeness to the man who cares for the silent creatures there as if they were his children. While an unspoken love develops between them, a marriage is coming to an end next door, in the smokers' lounge. Under the sign of Pisces, the novel varies the patterns of longing, loneliness and pairing.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 172 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2009 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag
- Author's age
- 52 when first published
- ISBN
9783630873077 (original)
- More
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