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IN BRIEF
Katharina Hacker
Die Habenichtse
(The Have-Nots)
Suhrkamp Verlag
March 2006, 320 pp.
Following her novel Eine Art Liebe
(reviewed in nbg, Autumn 2003),
the latest offering from this most
discerning and elegant of stylists has
a darker note to it, something of the
atmosphere of autumn when the
nights start drawing in. There’s
nothing particularly cosy about the
home life on view here, though –
Jakob and Isabelle’s love story, rather
than being refuelled by their move to
London, is petering out, and there’s a
nagging uncertainty, a hollowness to
the happiness, of most of their thirtysomething
friends. A tale to make
one shiver, but a rewarding one.
Well worth a look.
was born in 1967 in Frankfurt am Main and lives in Berlin. Translation
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