- Počet strán: 96
- Väzba: mäkká, brožovaná
- EAN: 9781529953527
- Jazyk: anglický
- ISBN: 9781529953527
- Dátum vydania: 8. januára 2026
- Vydavateľstvo : Vintage Publishing
Killing Stella
Marlen Haushofer
Claustrophobic and shattering, this is the story of one ordinary woman unable to save a teenager in her care. It is the story of Stella...Stella is a friend''s nineteen-year-old daughter who has come to live with Anna and her family. Unloved and neglected, Stella''s presence disturbs the already tense and tumultuous household. She lodges uncomfortably in their lives, whilst Anna struggles to bring warmth and welcome to the home. Her son continues to be gloomy and her daughter oblivious. Meanwhile Richard, Anna''s adulterous husband, pretends not to notice Stella at all…Marlen Haushofer, author of The Wall, is the undisputed mistress of sustained dread and this gripping short novel deserves to be rediscovered.TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE''This potent 1958 novella from Austrian writer Haushofer takes the form of a mother’s agitated confession... This one hits hard'' Publisher''s Weekly''Chillingly unillusioned... A fable about the habitual moral inertia of educated people'' London Review of Books‘Haushofer is a rather terrifying writer… Killing Stella limns a world of guilty secrets and repressions’ New Yorker
- Počet strán: 96
- Väzba: mäkká, brožovaná
- EAN: 9781529953527
- Jazyk: anglický
- ISBN: 9781529953527
- Dátum vydania: 8. januára 2026
- Vydavateľstvo : Vintage Publishing
Claustrophobic and shattering, this is the story of one ordinary woman unable to save a teenager in her care. It is the story of Stella...Stella is a friend''s nineteen-year-old daughter who has come to live with Anna and her family. Unloved and neglected, Stella''s presence disturbs the already tense and tumultuous household. She lodges uncomfortably in their lives, whilst Anna struggles to bring warmth and welcome to the home. Her son continues to be gloomy and her daughter oblivious. Meanwhile Richard, Anna''s adulterous husband, pretends not to notice Stella at all…Marlen Haushofer, author of The Wall, is the undisputed mistress of sustained dread and this gripping short novel deserves to be rediscovered.TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE''This potent 1958 novella from Austrian writer Haushofer takes the form of a mother’s agitated confession... This one hits hard'' Publisher''s Weekly''Chillingly unillusioned... A fable about the habitual moral inertia of educated people'' London Review of Books‘Haushofer is a rather terrifying writer… Killing Stella limns a world of guilty secrets and repressions’ New Yorker
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