It is Christmas in the alpine town of Furth am See and a six-year-old girl is playing a game of Parcheesi with her grandfather. The doorbell rings, and the old man gets up to answer, but never returns. When the young girl finally goes to see what has happened, she finds him lying by the barn, his skull broken; his face a red pulp against the white snow. From that time on, she does not speak a single word. Raffael Horn, the psychiatrist engaged to treat the silent child, is drawn into solving the crime along with Detective Superintendent Ludwig Kovacs. In search for answers to the murder, their parallel researches sweep through Furth, revealing a deeply troubling psychological profile of the tiny snowbound town.
About the Author
Paulus Hochgatterer is a distinguished child psychiatrist living in Vienna, whose work informs his novels. The Sweetness of Life was published by MacLehose Press in 2008 to great acclaim.
Jamie Bulloch s translations include The Sweetness of Life and Ruth Maier s Diary, and he has co-translated Daniel Glattauer s Love Virtually.
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