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DANIEL GLATTAUER
In einem Zug / On a Train
A Novel. ca. 208 pages
Spring 2025
English sample available
Daniel Glattauer's new great novel about love and writing
Two people who live completely different relationship models meet by chance on the train from Vienna to Munich: an encounter that sets sparks flying
"I couldn't put it down ... like a jilted lover, when I reached the end I wanted more."
Danielle Goldstein, TIME OUT on Love Virtually
„Tense and brilliantly paced... . the epistolary novel for the Google generation.“
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY on Every Seventh Wave
”An ingenious tightly plotted suspense story.”
Simon Beesley, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT on Forever Yours
“Glattauer's dialog technique is striking, refined ... This is skillful prose at the cutting edge.”
TAGES-ANZEIGER
A Book that Celebrates Love – and Life Itself
Eduard Brünhofer has been happily married to his wife Gina for half an eternity. He has made a name for himself as an author of romance novels, but has since lost the desire to reveal anything about his love. Now he is traveling by train from Vienna to Munich, where he has an unpleasant appointment to attend in this regard.
Sitting diagonally opposite in the train compartment is an early middle-aged woman. At first, Eduard Brünhofer is afraid that he will have to talk to her. Soon he can no longer avoid it. At first he hopes she will get off soon. Then he learns that she is also going to Munich. Catrin Meyr is his chance acquaintance. She tends to talk confidentially, unabashedly asks the most indiscreet questions, doesn't say anything good about long-term relationships, but wants to know everything about them.
In short: she wants to talk about love. And puts Eduard Brünhofer in quite a predicament in the process.
In einem Zug / On a Train
A Novel. ca. 208 pages
Spring 2025
English sample available
Daniel Glattauer's new great novel about love and writing
Two people who live completely different relationship models meet by chance on the train from Vienna to Munich: an encounter that sets sparks flying
"I couldn't put it down ... like a jilted lover, when I reached the end I wanted more."
Danielle Goldstein, TIME OUT on Love Virtually
„Tense and brilliantly paced... . the epistolary novel for the Google generation.“
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY on Every Seventh Wave
”An ingenious tightly plotted suspense story.”
Simon Beesley, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT on Forever Yours
“Glattauer's dialog technique is striking, refined ... This is skillful prose at the cutting edge.”
TAGES-ANZEIGER
A Book that Celebrates Love – and Life Itself
Eduard Brünhofer has been happily married to his wife Gina for half an eternity. He has made a name for himself as an author of romance novels, but has since lost the desire to reveal anything about his love. Now he is traveling by train from Vienna to Munich, where he has an unpleasant appointment to attend in this regard.
Sitting diagonally opposite in the train compartment is an early middle-aged woman. At first, Eduard Brünhofer is afraid that he will have to talk to her. Soon he can no longer avoid it. At first he hopes she will get off soon. Then he learns that she is also going to Munich. Catrin Meyr is his chance acquaintance. She tends to talk confidentially, unabashedly asks the most indiscreet questions, doesn't say anything good about long-term relationships, but wants to know everything about them.
In short: she wants to talk about love. And puts Eduard Brünhofer in quite a predicament in the process.
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Daniel Glattauer
Daniel Glattauer, born in Vienna in 1960, was a journalist at Der Standard for twenty years. His breakthrough as a writer came with 'Gut gegen...
Daniel Glattauer, born in Vienna in 1960, was a journalist at Der Standard for twenty years. His breakthrough as a writer came with 'Gut gegen Nordwind' (Love Virtually) in 2006. Other successful novels followed. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Daniel Glattauer has also written numerous plays, which are among the most frequently staged in the Germanspeaking world. His novel 'Die spürst du nicht' (2023) was recently on the...