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Cooking in the Wrong Century
Kochen im falschen Jahrhundert
Teresa Präauer (born 1979)
Translated by Eleanor Updegraff
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Cooking in the Wrong Century
Pushkin Press · United States · 4 August 2026 · 176 pages
Cooking in the Wrong Century
Pushkin Press · United Kingdom · 8 May 2025 · Hardcover · 176 pages
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Being able to host, in the end, means having grown up. Five nameless people and an attempt at a dinner party: the hostess has cooked, the playlist for jazz lovers with little knowledge and much taste is running, and the supply of crémant seems endless. But the evening keeps starting again from the beginning, each time a little more comic, tragic, erotic or surreal. The guests talk about everything from food porn on the internet to cooking, shopping and furnishing a home as social practices, their aggressions sometimes hidden, sometimes open, while the hostess keeps feeling as if she has landed in the wrong century.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 198 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2023 by Wallstein Verlag
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9783835354296 (original)
9781805331773 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)
9781805331780 (Pushkin Press, United States)
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