Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to
interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who
lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his
three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who
is also his editor); he suspects she has other reasons for sending
him away.After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a
complicated menage a trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries
past and present. Rich with anthropological and literary allusion,
this prize-winning debut set in Europe, Brazil, and New York, tells
the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of
the past and the uncertainties of the future. Funeral for a Dog won
the prestigious Uwe-Johnson Prize, and critics raved: "Pletzinger's
debut is a real smash hit. It's been a long time since a young
German writer has thrown himself into the hurly-burly of life and
literature with so much intelligence and bravado" (Wolfgang Hobel,
Der Spiegel)."
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