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Hochgatterer, Paulus, 1961-
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Murder -- Fiction.
Austria -- Fiction.
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The sweetness of life / Paulus Hochgatterer ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
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Hochgatterer, Paulus, 1961-
New York : Maclehose Press, 2014.
Subjects
Murder -- Fiction.
Austria -- Fiction.
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9781623658533 :
1623658535 :
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232 pages ; 24 cm
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A chilling psychological thriller a group of damaged people living in a pleasant and seemingly tranquil Austrian village. It's the Christmas holiday, the presents have been opened, and a six-year-old girl is drinking cocoa and playing with her grandfather. The doorbell rings, and the old man gets up. The next time the girl sees her grandfather, he is lying by the barn, his skull broken; his face a red pulp against the white snow. From that time on, she does not speak a single word. Along with Detective Superintendent Ludwig Kovacs, Raffael Horn, the psychiatrist engaged to treat the silent child, reluctantly becomes involved in solving the murder. Their parallel researches sweep through the town: a young mother who believes her new-born child is the devil; a Benedictine monk who uses his iPod to drown the voices in his head; a high-spending teenager who tortures cats. Hochgatterer draws back the veil of normality and presents a disconcerting portrait of a winter-held town filled with unsavory inhabitants.
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