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Als ich jung war
“When I Was Young” (title translated by AI)
Norbert Gstrein (born 1961)
English editions
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It begins with a kiss. But is there ever such a thing as just a kiss? Franz grows up in remotest Tyrol, the son of innkeepers, and photographs couples on the happiest day of their lives, until a bride dies during a wedding party. What has that to do with him, and with the girl he kissed at the same place only weeks before? Fleeing these questions, he goes to America and works as a ski instructor, but there too someone dies: a friend whose life also balances possible violence against possible innocence. The more details Franz tells, the less certain the reader becomes of what he knows about others, and about himself.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 348 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria, United States
- First published
- 2019 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 58 when first published
- ISBN
9783446263710 (original)
- More
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