- Österreichischer Buchpreis 2018 · Shortlist
Laß dich heimgeigen, Vater, oder Den Tod ins Herz mir schreibe
“Go Fiddle Yourself Home, Father, or Write Death into My Heart” (title translated by AI)
Josef Winkler (born 1953)
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Only a few years ago the narrator learned that Odilo Globocnik, the Carinthian who led the murder of the Jews in Operation Reinhard and boasted of it, was buried after his suicide in May 1945 in a common field of the village of Kamering, the narrator's home, where his father and grandfather sowed and harvested their grain. His father never spoke of it. In a furious marathon of words, circling and digging ever deeper, the narrator exhumes the skeleton of the SS murderer, and with it the postwar history of the village and his memory of his father. The ground Kamering stands on, it turns out, is poisoned.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 195 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Historical, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria
- First published
- 2018 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 65 when first published
- ISBN
9783518427965 (original)