Susanne Heinrich In den Farben der Nacht In the Colours of Night DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, August 2005, 216 pp. ISBN: 3-8321-7937-2 A startling new voice speaks to us in this debut collection of short stories that are fast, breathless, full of temperament and imbued with poetry. Susanne Heinrich’s themes and her language are about confronting borders and braving new territory. ‘Love is not a victory march./ It is a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah’ is the Leonhard Cohen quote that leads us into this prose. Twelve variations on the theme of love, tales of the loneliness of the big city, of yearning and searching. Only music can help understand or soften the blows of reality and for every emotion there is a song. An impressive debut, steeped in atmosphere by a new writer with a wonderful presence. Also a chansonsinger, Susanne Heinrich participated in the Klagenfurt Ingeborg Bachmann Competition this year.