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Eigentum
“Property” (title translated by AI)
Wolf Haas (born 1960)
English editions
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All my life my mother made me believe she was doing badly. Three days before her death she came out with the news that she was doing well. The narrator, a writer, tells the story of his mother, almost ninety-five and dying in a care home, while he is supposed to be writing a lecture on whether one can write about a life. Born in 1923, she experienced what property means if you do not have it. Inflation came and the money was gone, and for her, even as a child, that meant poverty, work and saving, saving, saving. Yet it was never enough for even a single square metre of her own.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 156 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria
- First published
- 2023 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 63 when first published
- ISBN
9783446278332 (original)
- More
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