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Nil
“Nile” (title translated by AI)
Anna Baar (born 1973)
English editions
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A writer of serial stories is told by her editor to wrap up her instalments for a women's magazine in the next issue, even if the lovers at its centre have to jump off a cliff together. Feverishly she drafts an ending, then destroys the notes, not because it failed but for fear that it might come true. What if writing turned out to be autobiographical, not looking back but foretelling? Memories surface: her childhood as the daughter of a zoo director, from whose zoo a crocodile disappeared, and a woman in a bar dictating her life to a stranger called Sobek. Does the narrator exist only in her story?
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 148 pages in the original
- First published
- 2021 by Wallstein Verlag
- Author's age
- 48 when first published
- ISBN
9783835339477 (original)