Description
Two daughters grow up without fathers; the mother of the two is overburdened by life. She tops up the social money with the sale of second-hand clothes. Everything could be better and lighter …
With lies and clever manipulation, the mother tries to shield her children from the outside world and at the same time binds them to herself. Hand in hand, she walks through the village with her two little princesses, although they are actually »disrespectful little monsters« who sometimes fight their way through everyday life in a beastly manner.
The girls’ creepy, fairy-tale isolation begins to crack as the older of the two discovers the power of curiosity and begins to suspect that the world has more in store for her than just this small, painstakingly patched-together life.
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Reviews
Recommended in "New Books in German": »With its striking fragmented structure and sparing yet beautiful use of language, Meeresbrise is a haunting novel about undisclosed trauma, social marginalisation, coming of age in a rural community and how we establish a life for ourselves. Schutti’s sensitive way with words and keen eye for detail make this high-quality literary fiction with a captivatingly poetic touch.«
»The book invites readers to think about class, norms, mother-daughter relationships and many other serious social issues.« (Anna von Rat, Poco.lit)
»Carolina Schutti creates an incredible and sometimes uncanny effect. Literature that touches because it puts its fingers on the fragility of life.« (Bernd Melichar, Kleine Zeitung)
»With the current novel Ocean Breeze the author succeeds in a masterpiece on a narrow space.« (Sylvia Treidl, Buchkultur)
»A slim book, but one that holds a whole world within it, a world of lies and fairy tales with which a somehow strange mother has spun her two daughters.« (Martin Sailer, ORF Tirol)
»Short chapters and sentences that resonate. A great recommendation.« (Hans Rouven, ekz)
»Schutti links fundamental themes such as family violence, resulting traumas and the construction of an imaginary protective world with the eventual attempt to break out of this life. A timely and important novel.« (Hubert Berger, Kronen Zeitung)
»Carolina Schutti’s Ocean Breeze can be read in many ways: as a socially critical novel depicting the marginalization of a single mother and her two daughters in a village, as well as their exposure to poverty; as a coming-of-age novel depicting a girl’s liberation from a narrow family world; as a literary artwork that brilliantly masters the narration. The grandiose thing about this novel is that it is everything at once.« (Anna Rottensteiner, Literature in Tyrol)
Author Biography
Carolina Schutti was born in Innsbruck in 1976, where she still lives.
She has published numerous books that have been translated so far into seventeen languages and have received numerous awards, including the EU literature prize in 2015 for Once I must have trod on soft Grass.
Literaturverlag Droschl GmbH
Droschl is publishing international authors like Lydia Davis, Oksana Sabuschko, Georgi Gospodinov or Julien Gracq as well as German writing authors like Iris Hanika, Ilma Rakusa, Thomas Stangl, Monique Schwitter, Thomas Jonigk or Werner Schwab. The names speak for themselves, they stand for an attitude that does not consider literature as representation but as protest and comment from the fringe. We want to address the reader’s curiosity, those who want to discover something, who focus on words, whose one great love is language, many languages, the innumerable manners of speech.
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- Publisher Literaturverlag Droschl
- Publication Date February 2023
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783990591260
- Publication Country or regionAustria
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 21 EUR
- Pages120
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleMeeresbrise
- Original Language AuthorsGerman
- Copyright Year2023
- Dimensions21x13 cm
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