The Lime Works

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 and grew up in Austria. He studied music at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1957 he began a second career, as a playwright, poet, and novelist. The winner of the three most distinguished and coveted literary prizes awarded in Germany, he has become one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation. He published nine novels, an autobiography, one volume of poetry, four collections of short stories, and six volumes of plays. Thomas Bernhard died in Austria in 1989. Klappentext For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he's conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork. Then he murders his wife, and an unnamed life-insurance salesman relates the mysterious reasons behind it all.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Bernhard
• Assisted by: Sophie Wilkins (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.03.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9781400077588
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-7758-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature