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Patricia Highsmith, Paul Ingendaay&nbsp;(Hg.)  |  The Black House  |  English Title: The Black House<br>368 Pages

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368 Pages
ISBN 978-3-257-06426-1
Published in April 2005

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Patricia Highsmith
The Black House

Published by Diogenes as Keiner von uns

From a fishing trawler operating off the coast of Massachusetts, a sailor spots something white on the surface of the ocean. A seagull, a beach ball, a bathing cap? The pallid object that the crew eventually heaves on board has full breasts, a slim waist and hips like a mermaid – but this is no mermaid. Eleven stories of people whose very existence is torn apart in the flutter of an eyelid, as if the curtain had finally been raised – whoosh! – revealing a real and dangerous life that pushes them beyond their limits into the deep unknown. They are the stories of young girls, cowards, swindlers, the old and the young – all those who have fallen by the wayside in the struggle against the injustices of daily life.

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