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Dunkelblum
Book • 2021
The novel is set in the summer of 1989 in Dunkelblum, a village on the eastern border of Austria.
The story revolves around the town's residents who hold dark secrets related to the Second World War and the Nazi period.
As a mysterious visitor arrives and starts asking questions, threatening letters are sent, people disappear, and a body is found, forcing the town to confront its past.
The novel delves into Austria's treatment of the Jewish community, the experiences of living in the borderlands, and the rewriting of history.
It also touches on the events of 1945 when Hungarian Jewish laborers were killed in the town, and the aftermath where witnesses met with unexplained deaths.
The story revolves around the town's residents who hold dark secrets related to the Second World War and the Nazi period.
As a mysterious visitor arrives and starts asking questions, threatening letters are sent, people disappear, and a body is found, forcing the town to confront its past.
The novel delves into Austria's treatment of the Jewish community, the experiences of living in the borderlands, and the rewriting of history.
It also touches on the events of 1945 when Hungarian Jewish laborers were killed in the town, and the aftermath where witnesses met with unexplained deaths.
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Erwähnt von 

selbst als Buch, in dem sie verstand, wie man Romane schreibt.


Eva Menasse
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als Roman, der aus der Täterperspektive ein Massaker in einem österreichischen Dorf erzählt und die Verdrängung der Vergangenheit thematisiert.


Friedemann Karig

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Von 

und 

im Podcast besprochen; ein Roman über die Geschichte eines fiktiven Ortes im Burgenland.


Petra Hartlieb


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Eva Menasse

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