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FOREIGN
DEUTICKE
RIGHTS
Elfriede Hammerl
Die Kleingeldaffäre
Love on the Cheap
Novel. 160 pages. Hardcover
Publication date: July 25, 2011
A love with no future and a woman with no illusions about it ... a book of such
ruthless candour is a rare event.
A woman past her prime has a lover. He is married and intends to stay that way – they both
know that. Claiming to be too inept at choosing gifts, G., the lover gives his mistress money
so she can buy herself something nice. The money belongs to his wife, who happens to be
considerably better off than him. Instead of closeness and affection, the mistress gets the
wife’s money; the wife, on the other hand, has every entitlement to both. Whenever the
mistress thinks about her predicament, she is torn between anger and desperation, but all
her attempts at breaking free are doomed to failure, because, unfortunately she remains
under G’s spell – what’s worse, she loves him.
Candid and without illusions, in Kleingeldaffäre Elfriede Hammerl shows that love is no
easy matter – and even if all those involved are old enough to know better, it does not
follow the laws of logic.
Elfriede Hammerl
lives near Vienna. She studied German and drama, and works as a features writer for profil,
stern, Vogue, Cosmopolitan and the daily Kurier. Her awards include: The City of Vienna’s
Prize for Journalism (1999), The City of Vienna’s Prize for Women (2002), and the Concordia
Prize (2004) and most recently the Kurt Vorhofer Prize (2011). She has written numerous
scripts for television. Previous publications at Deuticke include: Mausi oder das Leben ist
ungerecht (2002), Wunderbare Valerie (2003), Der verpasste Mann (2004), Müde bin ich
Känguru (2006), Hotel Mama (2007), and Alles falsch gemacht (2010).
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