Maybe This Time (9 page)
Authors: Alois Hotschnig
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PEIRENE TITLE NO.
9
Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe
translated from the Swiss German by Tess Lewis
“A powerful, poetic book. A two-hour enchantment.”
KULTURSPIEGEL
AUTHOR
Alois Hotschnig, born in 1959, is one of Austria’s most critically acclaimed authors, eliciting comparison with Franz Kafka and Thomas Bernhard. He has written novels, short stories and plays. His books have won major Austrian and international honours, such as the Italo-Svevo award and the Erich-Fried prize.
Maybe This Time
was first published in German in 2006.
TRANSLATOR
Tess Lewis has been translating from German and French for two decades. For her translations of Peter Handke, Alois Hotschnig, Pascale Bruckner and Philippe Sollers she has been awarded PEN Translation Fund grants and an NEA Translation Fellowship.
First published in Great Britain in 2011 by
Peirene Press
17 Cheverton Road
London N19 3BB
www.peirenepress.comThis ebook edition first published in 2011
First published under the original German title DIE KINDER BERUHIGTE DAS NICHT by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2006 Copyright © 2006 by Alois Hotschnig
This translation © Tess Lewis, 2011
This translation was made possible in part by a contribution from the Translation Fund of the PEN American Center
This publication is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts
Alois Hotschnig asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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ISBN 978-0-9562840-9-9
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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