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“Struggling Along” (title translated by AI)
Helena Adler (born 1983)
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The youngest daughter of a bankrupt farmer has only just escaped her parents' house when she realises that the provinces cannot be escaped: a world of silence and blurred truths where the bodies of what goes unsaid are piled up in the parlour, and where everyone knows who belongs and who does not. She joins a band of troublemakers who carry the countryside into the nearby town, loot the slaughterhouse and smuggle drugs inside animal carcasses. They dance, rage and gamble with their lives because they are used to losing. Then, with a child, it is no longer only her own existence that is at stake.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 177 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria
- First published
- 2022 by Jung und Jung Verlag
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9783990272718 (original)