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A novel about the unplumbed depths of fidelity and deceit An abysmal day for husband and wife. A compelling story of both love and its worst nightmares . Hinrich Schepp has regained his sight. After decades of severe myopia he at last hopes to get to the bottom of women and their magnificent incomprehensibility. All the more when he notices a seductive beauty at the bar in his local being first kissed and then bitten in the neck by her female companion – something Schepp finds simultaneously dreadful and auspicious. His life gets really problematic when the very same woman turns up there again shortly afterwards – as a waitress. But what has all this to do with his wife Doro’s notes, which he finds one morning on the desk? Or with the cold, dark lake down into which, according to Doro, all newly dead people must go, to die there for the second time? Rights sold to: France (Jacqueline Chambon), UK (Peirene Press), Portugal (Estrofes & Versos)
About the author:
Matthias Politycki was born in 1955 and lives in Hamburg and Munich. The ‘Grandseigneur of our literature’ (Tagesspiegel) is one of the most important representatives of present-day German literature. He has published novels, short stories, poems and essays, including Weiberroman (Women’s Novel, 1997) and the picaresque novel In 180 Tagen um die Welt (Round the World in 180 Days, 2007). His works published to date by Hoffmann und Campe include the short stories Das Schweigen am anderen Ende des Rüssels (The Silence at the Other End of the Trunk, 2001), the volume of poetry Ratschlag zum Verzehr der Seidenraupe (Some Advice on the Consumption of the Silkworm, 2003), the audio book Frauen. Naja. Schwierig (Women. Well now. Difficult, 2005), his great novel about Cuba Herr der Hörner (Lord of the Horns, 2005), the essay Vom Verschwinden der Dinge in der Zukunft (Of the Disappearance of Things in the Future, 2007) and most recently Die Sekunden danach (Seconds Later - 88 Poems, 2009). A full catalogue of his works, reading dates, press reviews, awards etc can be found at www.matthias-politycki.de.. |
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