FOREIGN HANSER RIGHTS - Hanser Literaturverlage
FOREIGN HANSER RIGHTS - Hanser Literaturverlage
FOREIGN HANSER RIGHTS - Hanser Literaturverlage
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<strong>FOREIGN</strong><br />
<strong>HANSER</strong><br />
<strong>RIGHTS</strong><br />
Wilhelm Genazino<br />
Wenn wir Tiere wären<br />
If Only We Were Animals<br />
Novel. 160 pages. Hardcover<br />
Publication date: July 25, 2011<br />
We have it all – employment, home, relationships. But sometimes just one of them<br />
would be more than enough, and having it all is more than you can handle. But<br />
how is a man to shake off his private life if he can’t even divest himself of work?<br />
F I CTI O N<br />
Life is hard and can easily be too much for even the toughest of individuals to cope with.<br />
The world we live in makes excessive demands on us: turning up at work every day with a<br />
beaming smile that exudes commitment, struggling with the vicissitudes of public transport<br />
and supermarkets. And then, on top of it all, there’s our private life to contend with. Even<br />
if the whole thing runs more or less smoothly, even with a life that may be deemed halfway<br />
successful, there comes a time when a man has had enough.<br />
He is a longstanding freelance partner in an architectural office and longstanding boyfriend<br />
of Maria. But when he takes on permanent employment, the precarious balance of his life tips<br />
out of kilter and before he knows it he has three women on his hands instead of just the one.<br />
Oh, if only we were animals! A duck in the park, a friendly dog on the sofa! If only we could<br />
just blithely ignore all life’s daily impositions!<br />
Wilhelm Genazino describes a here-and-now in which we are all out of our depth, and he<br />
describes a man who can only withstand the pressure by transgressing the stifling regulatory<br />
system. But, inevitably, he is soon found out, and finds himself in prison. Things won’t be<br />
any easier there … Ironic, funny, incisive – this is Genazino at his best.<br />
Wilhelm Genazino<br />
was born in 1943 in Mannheim, and lives in Frankfurt. His work has won him numerous<br />
awards, amongst others the prestigious Georg Büchner Prize and the Kleist Prize. His recent<br />
publications with <strong>Hanser</strong> include the novels Die Liebesblödigkeit (2005), Mittelmäßiges<br />
Heimweh (2007), and Das Glück in glücksfernen Zeiten (2009).<br />
Sales to Foreign Countries<br />
Liebesblödigkeit: China (People’s Literature), France (Bourgois), Greece (Kastaniotis),<br />
Italy (Guanda), Korea (Changbi), Netherlands (Atlas), Russia (Fluid), Slovenia (Zavod Litera),<br />
Spain (Círculo de Lectores), Taiwan (Yuan Liou), Turkey (Gendas)