Klausen

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Nobody knows exactly what happened in the small town of Klausen, people will say a bomb went off on the autobahn, or at the shack near the autobahn, or someone was shouting at the town from a bridge and it all stems from a fight over measuring noise pollution on the town square, or was it the work of eco-terrorists or Italians. While nobody knows who to blame, they all suspect Josef Gasser, who spent years away from Klausen, is to blame. The town is full of confusion, in a fog of rumour, where everyone claims to know what is happening even if the story changes each time.

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"What should we believe What can we know These are the significant theoretical questions that Maier's books raise with great humor, sarcasm as well as skepticism. . . . A magnificently constructed book."Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "After one's first success it is certainly difficult to write a second book, and more than a few have failed miserably. Andreas Maier has overcome this hurdle with verve and skill."Die Zeit

Author Bio

Andreas Maier was born in Bad Nauheim outside Frankfurt in 1967. In addition to winning the Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Literary Competition in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 2000, he received the Jrgen Ponto Foundation's Literary Support Prize and the Aspekte Literary Prize for his first novel Wldchestag. Kenneth J. Northcott is a professor emeritus of German at the University of Chicago. He has translated many books, among them Thomas Bernhard's The Voice Imitator, Histrionics, and Three Novellas.