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Das Haus in der Dorotheenstraße
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The House on Dorothea Street

Published by Diogenes as Das Haus in der Dorotheenstraße
Original Title: Das Haus in der Dorotheenstraße
Five novellas that play out in the south west of Berlin, and through which the Teltow Canal winds its way like a red thread, with its black crows, secluded villas and impenetrable forests. Above it, the sky is suddenly sealed off by an ash cloud. After his wife's unexpected death, a man gives up everything that connects him to the past. But what can he cling to now? – An established politician suddenly becomes convinced that a crow is sitting on the back seat of his car like a crouching shadow. – A journalist is summoned to cold and damp London for a job and hopes his wife will follow him. But when an Icelandic volcano seals off the skies with its ash cloud, his imagination runs wild. – A man follows mysterious sounds of cello music in the woods and finds a famous cellist, but unfortunately she has already been dead for twenty-five years. – The fifth novella is about a hotel consultant, married and more and more away on business. Why can his wife, who loves him, only keep him with her as a shadow?

General Fiction, Compulsory Reading
128 pages
2013

978-3-257-06846-7
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»Hartmut Lange's laconically beautiful storytelling also owes its immense suggestive power to an inner tension, arising from the way he clothes the unexpected in the plainest of sentences.«
Roman Bucheli / Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Hartmut Lange's exquisite depictions of the uncanniness of human life as well as the nightmarish potential of suburbia seem ready-made for an art-house film.«
New Books in German, London
»Hartmut Lange's laconically beautiful storytelling also owes its immense suggestive power to an inner tension, arising from the way he clothes the unexpected in the plainest of sentences.«
Roman Bucheli / Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Hartmut Lange's exquisite depictions of the uncanniness of human life as well as the nightmarish potential of suburbia seem ready-made for an art-house film.«
New Books in German, London
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