Fiction
The Small Piece of the Big Sky – novel
by Ana Bilic
An unusual sheen of the German language! "We were lying in the meadows and saw the sky and the moving clouds ... we let our thoughts go as the clouds went..." A woman from Croatia comes to Vienna to learn German. She falls in love with her teacher. They tell each other stories, dreamy fairy tales, with which they try to fathom their innermost being. They walk through the Prater, to the Danube Canal, over the Naschmarkt, try to get closer to themselves and to life. Ana Bilić German-language debut is a love story with its own melody, which does not deny its roots in a foreign country and precisely because of this gives the German language an unusual shine.
