NEUWARE - Portofrei innerhalb Deutschlands! |
Art Nr.: 0871402688 |
ISBN 13: 9780871402684 |
Release Year: 2014 |
Published by: Liveright Publishing Corporation |
Cover: Buch |
Cover Format: 236x162x36 mm |
Pages: 400 |
Weight: 600 g |
Language: Englisch |
Author: Clemens J. Setz |
Description |
In the Austrian state of Styria lies the Helianau Institute, a boarding school for children born with a mysterious condition known as Indigo syndrome. Anyone who comes near them immediately suffers from nausea and vertigo. Clemens Setz-a fictionalized doppelgänger of the author-is a young math teacher who loses his job at the school after attempting to investigate the mysterious 'relocations' of several children. Fourteen years later, Robert, a former student, discovers a newspaper article about Setz's acquittal for the murder of an animal abuser. Could there be a connection between this story, which continues to haunt Robert, and the puzzling events of the past DeLillo-esque in its exploration of alienation and anxiety, Indigo weaves together bizarre historical anecdotes, such as Edison's electrocution of an elephant, with pop cultural marginalia and pseudoscience to create a 'literary work that makes its own laws . . . rich in dialogue and variety, amusing and anecdotal, but also brutal and unfathomable' (Der Spiegel). |
Information of Author |
Clemens J. Setz is the author of two previous novels and the winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Ernst-Willner-Preis at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2008. He lives in Austria. |
NEUWARE - Portofrei innerhalb Deutschlands! |
Art Nr.: 0871402688 |
ISBN 13: 9780871402684 |
Release Year: 2014 |
Published by: Liveright Publishing Corporation |
Cover: Buch |
Cover Format: 236x162x36 mm |
Pages: 400 |
Weight: 600 g |
Language: Englisch |
Author: Clemens J. Setz |
Description |
In the Austrian state of Styria lies the Helianau Institute, a boarding school for children born with a mysterious condition known as Indigo syndrome. Anyone who comes near them immediately suffers from nausea and vertigo. Clemens Setz-a fictionalized doppelgänger of the author-is a young math teacher who loses his job at the school after attempting to investigate the mysterious 'relocations' of several children. Fourteen years later, Robert, a former student, discovers a newspaper article about Setz's acquittal for the murder of an animal abuser. Could there be a connection between this story, which continues to haunt Robert, and the puzzling events of the past DeLillo-esque in its exploration of alienation and anxiety, Indigo weaves together bizarre historical anecdotes, such as Edison's electrocution of an elephant, with pop cultural marginalia and pseudoscience to create a 'literary work that makes its own laws . . . rich in dialogue and variety, amusing and anecdotal, but also brutal and unfathomable' (Der Spiegel). |
Information of Author |
Clemens J. Setz is the author of two previous novels and the winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Ernst-Willner-Preis at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2008. He lives in Austria. |