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An elderly lady offers a young woman a piece of cake. She accepts. The lady resembles the Austrian Empress Elisabeth and lives with her servant in an apartment full of bizarre souvenirs. More invitations follow. A seemingly harmless visit to the museum turns into a meticulously planned raid to steal a royal cocaine syringe. Without realizing, the young woman has become the lady''s accomplice. Does she realize she is losing control?
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Linda Stift in an Austrian writer. She was born in 1969 and studied Philosophy and German literature. She lives in Vienna. Her first novel, Kingpeng, was published in 2005. She has won numerous awards and was nominated for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2009.
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'Linda Stift breaks the world down into frightening fragments. Impressive.' TAZ ------ 'Such a wicked psychothriller can only come from Vienna.' KULTURSPIEGEL ------ 'The reader finds themselves in the situation of Kafka's Josef K: drifting towards the inevitable.' LITERATURKRITIK.DE
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 184 pages. An elderly lady offers a young woman a piece of cake. She accepts. The lady r esembles the Austrian Empress Elisabeth and lives with her servant in an apartme nt full of bizarre souvenirs. More invitations follow. A seemingly harmless visi t to the museum turns into a meticulously planned raid to steal a royal cocaine syringe. Without realizing, the young woman has become the lady's accomplice. Do es she realize she is losing control? Seller Inventory # 2699s
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