Weight of Things

A strange, slow-burning domestic nightmare, tinged with the traumas of war, from the award-winning author.

About the author

Marianne Fritz (1948-2007) was an Austrian novelist. Her first book, The Weight of Things, marked the beginning of an ambitious cycle of novels with the overarching title "The Fortress," comprising The Child of Violence and the Stars of the Romani, Whose Language You Don't Understand, and the gargantuan Naturally, the third volume of which she was preparing at the time of her death.

Summary

A slow-burning domestic nightmare, tinged with the traumas of war

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Fritz
• Assisted by: Adrian Nathan West (Translation), West Adrian Nathan (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781786632968
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-296-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; austria, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, FICTION / Feminist, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary