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Eine Frau ist auf der Suche nach ihrem verschollenen Bruder, der vielleicht gefoltert, eingesperrt oder gar getötet wurde. Sie ist in Begleitung ihres Liebhabers, der zugleich ihr männliches Spiegelbild ist. Stets auf der Suche nach sich selbst, immer in Bewegung, führen sie ihre ganz verschiedenen und doch ineinander verflochtenen Existenzen, stürzen sich auf nutzlose Hoffnungen, zögern aufzugeben, fürchten sich vor dem Ende. Ann Quins erfind...

Ann Quin's wildest, funniest, freakiest, kinkiest, and best novel - a road-trip novel, a graphic novel, a spy novel, a Beat novel, an anti-novel - is available again, to inspire a new generation of mavericks.

From mid-century working-class experimentalist Ann Quin, author of Berg, comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically charged mystery.

»Ein Mann namens Berg, der sich in Greb umbenannte, kam in eine Küstenstadt, mit der Absicht seinen Vater zu töten ...« So beginnt Ann Quins verrückt-lustiger Debutroman mit düsteren Untertönen. Ein Erstlingswerk so »überragend und außergewöhnlich, dass man es nie wieder vergessen wird« (The Guardian). Haarwuchsmittel- und Perückenverkäufer Alistair Berg erfährt den Aufenthaltsort seines Vaters, der ihn und seine Mutter früh verlassen hat. Oh...

This enigmatic novel, from one of Britain's most important writers of the post-war avant-garde, explores suicide, marriage and class.

The much-anticipated reissue of the resurgently popular 1960s avant garde writer's great novel of a hair restorer named Berg attempting to kill his father who is also his love rival. Follows the excited reception of Jennifer Hodgson's edited collection of Quin's stories and fragments "The Unmapped Country" (2018).

-- Ruth and Leonard's young female boarder, S., disappears under circumstances that suggest suicide. As the couple pours over her diary, audio tapes, and movies, their obsession with the enigmatic young girl takes over their relationship. Three combines laconic dialogue with poetic impressionism in an incisive exploration of the hidden emotions and sexual undercurrents of the British middle class.

This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author Ann Quin explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge. The stories cut an alternative path across innovative twentieth-century writing, bridging the world of Virginia Woolf and Anna Kavan with that of Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus.

A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father...."So begins Ann Quin's first novel, which has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett and Nathalie Sarraute. Against the backdrop of this gritty seaside town, an absurd and brutal plot develops involving three characters--Alistair Berg, his father, and their mutual mistress. In his attempt to kill his father, Berg mutilates a ventriloq...

A poetic book of voices, landscapes and the passing of time, Ann Quin's finely wrought novel reflects the multiple meanings of the very word "passages." Two characters move through the book -- a woman in search of her brother, and her lover (a masculine reflection of herself) in search of himself. The form of the novel, reflecting the schizophrenia of the characters, is split into two sections -- a narrative, and a diary annotated with those t...

As innovative and abrasive as the very best of William Burroughs, Ann Quin's Tripticks offers a scattered account of the narrator's flight across a surreal American landscape, pursued by his "No. 1 X-wife" and her new lover. This masterpiece of pre-punk aesthetics critiques the hypocrisy and consumerism of modern culture while spoofing the "typical" maladjusted family, which in this case includes a father who made his money in ballpoint pens a...