Nathan, an editor for a Viennese newspaper, maintains an emancipated marriage and an equally emancipated affair, paying frequent visits to his psychotherapist. In this entertaining and facetious novel, Robert Menasse paints a vivid portrait of the post-’68 generation and a society “that cannot even sell a bottle of mineral water without viewing the goods from an erotic angle”. Austrian author Robert Menasse (born 1954 in Vienna) has been translated in more than twenty countries and is recognized as one of the leading voices in Austrian literature.

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