Karen Duve Author

Rain

First published in 1999

When Leon lands a contract to ghost-write the memoirs of a dodgy gangster, his worries seemt to be over: now he can afford to move to a dream home in the country with his beautiful wife Martina. But the house is by a fetid swamp where it never stops raining, and, like his marriage, is starting to sink. Then he gets writer’s block and he’s already spent the advance. Their attempts at DIY are hampered by the plague of indestructible slugs eating away at the foundations. And then the gangster, unhappy with the pages Leon’s written, starts to get nasty...

"Not for the squeamish... a modern Gothic" Guardian

"Witty, eccentric... deliciously deadpan, lavishly absurd and featuring a supporting cast of shiny swamp creatures. This dark comedy is a razor-edged treat." Publisher’s Weekly

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The title has been previously published in the following countries:
China (Yunnan People), Czech Republic (Petr Minarik), Denmark (Gyldendal), Finland (Otava), France (Payot & Rivages), Hungary (JAK), Israel (Xargol), Italy (RCS Libri), Netherlands (De Geus), Norway (Aschehoug), Spain (Santillana), Turkey (Merkez Kitapcilik), UK (Bloomsbury)

Publisher: KiWi-Taschenbuch
Release: 07.09.2018
ISBN: 978-3-462-05243-5
320 Pages
Author: Karen Duve

Karen Duve

Karen Duve , born in Hamburg in 1961, lives in the Märkische Schweiz area of Brandenburg. She has won numerous awards. Her novels Regenroman (“Rain”), Dies ist kein Liebeslied (“This Is Not a Love Song”), Die entführte Prinzessin (“The Abducted Princess”) and Taxi were bestsellers and have been translated into 14 languages. In 2011, she published Anständig essen. Ein Selbstversuch (“Eating Well”) and, in 2014, the polemic Warum die Sache schiefgeht (“Why Things Go Wrong”). Her novel Macht (published in GB under the title “The Prepper Room”) received the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor 2017 and her last novel Fräulein Nettes kurzer Sommer (“Fräulein Nette's Brief Summer”) received the Düsseldorfer Literature Prize 2019. Karen Duve was recently awarded with the Soluthurner Literatur Prize 2019 and the Carl-Amery Literature Prize 2019 for her multifaceted oeuvre.