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Nachtfrauen
“Night Women” (title translated by AI)
Maja Haderlap (born 1961)
English editions
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As Mira sets off for southern Carinthia, she knows that difficult days lie ahead: her old mother must be prepared to leave the house where, decades ago, she found shelter as an unskilled worker with her small children. Over the following weeks, memories of a childhood experienced as traumatic grow denser, burdened by the father's early death, by a rigid patriarchal rural order and by the dogmas of the Catholic Church. Old, unresolved conflicts flare up again, and Mira begins to understand that they are fuelled by the long-silenced lives of the women before her: a day labourer, and a partisan who never returned to Carinthia after the war.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 293 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria
- First published
- 2023 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 62 when first published
- ISBN
9783518431337 (original)