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A story within a story. I liked how the frame story flows seamlessly into the actual narrative, which in turn is a completely fictionalized biography by the narrator about an acquaintance about whom he actually knows very little, except that his daughter (presumably) committed a terrorist attack. As if the author is taking a double distance, a very unreliable narrator, very postmodern. Along the way, you also learn all about how leather gloves are made. A great book.

These three novellas have something in common, although I can't quite put my finger on it. It's all about searching for someone who doesn't want to be found or about watching someone who is aware of being watched. The first story was the most strange of them, seemed a little incomplete to me and I didn't know what to make of it, the second one seemed rather abstract, unreal in a way, though still quite compelling, but the third one was exactly what I look for in literature: a rich story full of little meanders, with authentic, relatable people in it. I particularly liked this third novel "The Locked Room", but without the other two, something would have been missing.

A story within a story. I liked how the frame story flows seamlessly into the actual narrative, which in turn is a completely fictionalized biography by the narrator about an acquaintance about whom he actually knows very little, except that his daughter (presumably) committed a terrorist attack. As if the author is taking a double distance, a very unreliable narrator, very postmodern. Along the way, you also learn all about how leather gloves are made. A great book.

Natürlich kein Vergleich zu ihren Romanen; die gehören meines Erachtens zu dem besten, was in den letzten 10 Jahren in deutscher Sprache erschienen ist. Dennoch sehr lesenswert, ein klein wenig kann man Raphaela Edelbauer nun auch in die Karten schauen, wenn sie in diesem schmalen Band ein paar Aspekte ihrer Herangehensweise an Sprache und das Schreiben erläutert.

Natürlich kein Vergleich zu ihren Romanen; die gehören meines Erachtens zu dem besten, was in den letzten 10 Jahren in deutscher Sprache erschienen ist. Dennoch sehr lesenswert, ein klein wenig kann man Raphaela Edelbauer nun auch in die Karten schauen, wenn sie in diesem schmalen Band ein paar Aspekte ihrer Herangehensweise an Sprache und das Schreiben erläutert.