Bad Words: Selected Short Prose

by Ilse Aichinger

Book Overview

A moving work of fiction from one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature.

Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered. Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger's writing, which since her first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803090464
• ISBN13: 9781803090467
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"