This novel by the contemporary Austrian writer and playwright tells about 10 days from the life of a middle-aged woman coming to a strange country to write the history of a strange life. This "external" travel of hers becomes also an "internal" travel. The plot well corresponds to the manner of narration - "cinematographic" and exquisitely realistic.

• This book is a part of the STEPS/SCHRITTE project that presents the modern literature of Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The project was established by the initiative of S. Fischer Foundation and supported by the Plenipotentiary of the Federal Government for Culture and Mass Media the State Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany. The project is based on the financial support of the Culture Fund of the Federal Republic of Germany.

ISBN 5-89059-062-6