<p>Over the past 100 years the novel of adolescence has become a familiar staple, depicting sensitive and innocent youth as the victims of a brutal and unfeeling society. Unlike their predecessors, however, today's youth are plagued by more complex challenges -- not simply having to deal with puberty, the demands of society, as well as their own attempts at individuation through rebellion or withdrawal, but, more significantly, with fractured families, with drugs and promiscuous sex, and with the omnipresent distractions of a materialistic society. The protagonist of Caretta Caretta is a fifteen-year-old juvenile dellinquent, the product of a dysfunctional family. Alone, forced to reside in a halfway house with other delinquents, he meets Isabella. She introduces him to turtles: 'Caretta Caretta', the most beautiful animal they have ever seen becomes the object of their quest.</p>

Caretta Caretta (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture and Thought: Translation)

Literature & Fiction

Paulus Hochgatterer

History & Criticism

Ariadne Pr

An old man has his skull broken on a winter's night. His seven-year-old granddaughter finds him and refuses to speak a single word afterwards. Raffael Horn, a psychologist engaged to treat the child, becomes reluctantly involved in solving the crime. Detective Superintendent Bruno Kovacs sits in snowbound beer gardens by day and peers through binoculars at night. Year-end crimes are always a bother, he finds, not least because they disrupt his erotic schedule with Marlene, the owner of a second-hand shop. And although he doesn't mind an excuse to extract himself from Marlene's romantic New Year plans, this victim, he is quite sure, will keep him busy well in to January.A psychopathic father beats his daughters, a jogging Benedictine monk hears voices that do not come from heaven, a retired postman contemplates suicide, and a young mother believes her new-born child is the devil...The psychological profile of this small town is far from reassuring - but which member of its population was the nocturnal visitor responsible for the brutal slaying?

The Sweetness of Life

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Maclehose Press Quercus

<p>It is Christmas in the alpine town of Furth am See and a six-year-old girl is playing ludo with her grandfather. The doorbell rings, and the old man goes to answer. The next time the girl sees him, he is lying with his skull broken, his face a red pulp against the white snow. From that time on, she does not speak a single word. Raffael Horn, the psychiatrist engaged to treat the silent child, reluctantly becomes involved in solving the murder along with Detective Superintendent Ludwig Kovacs. Their parallel researches sweep through the town: a young mother who believes her new-born child is the devil; a Benedictine monk who uses his iPod to drown the voices in his head; a high-spending teenager who tortures cats. The psychological profile of this claustrophobic, winter-held town is not reassuring - which, if any, of its inhabitants was the brutal night-time slayer of the suffering girl's grandfather</p>

Sweetness of Life

MacLehose Press

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