The Years to Come
Die kommenden Jahre

gstrein die kommenden jahre
Hanser Verlag
February 2018 / 285pp
Fiction

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by Translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte, edited by Sven Pinczewski for the Goethe-Institut Toronto

review

Set in the summer of 2016, The Years to Come is a topical novel about a struggling marriage which touches upon a wide range of contemporary issues.

Richard is a middle-aged academic and his wife, Natasha, is a writer. The couple live in Hamburg with their daughter. The novel opens at a conference of glaciologists in New York before the 2016 presidential elections, when the academics all claim they will flee to Canada if ā€˜the worst happensā€™. Flight and escape become themes in the novel when Richard himself is offered a job in Canada. His marriage is at a low point and he lingers on in Canada to flirt with a Mexican colleague, while Natasha tells him that she has let out their holiday home to a Syrian refugee family, the Farhis. The novel goes on to focus on the Farhisā€™ struggle to integrate into German life, supported by Natasha. It closes with three alternative endings, all involving Richard going to Canada to investigate the job offer, but with different outcomes for the Farhis. 

The international scope of Norbert Gstreinā€™s latest novel will cement its appeal to an English-language readership, striking a chord with fans of Zadie Smith and her latest book, Swing Time.

about the author

Norbert Gstrein was born in 1961 in Tyrol, Austria and now lives in Hamburg. He has been awarded the Alfred DoĢˆblin Prize and the Uwe Johnson Prize, among others. Hanser has published his novels Die Winter im SuĢˆden (2008), Die englischen Jahre (new edition 2008), Das Handwerk des ToĢˆtens (new edition 2010), Die ganze Wahrheit (2010), Eine Ahnung vom Anfang (2013) and In der freien Welt (2016), several of which have been published in English translation.

rights information

Carl Hanser Verlag (Germany)
Contact: Friederike Barakat
Tel: +49 899 983 0509
friederike.barakat@hanser.de
www.hanser-literaturverlage.de

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