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A man writes a novel. The man’s name is Thomas Glavinic, the novel’s called “Die Arbeit der Nacht” (“The Work of the Night”) and the man wants what everyone wants: success. He wants a publisher, a prize, money. What he’s got is a manuscript, a literary agent, headaches and unfortunately mostly unbearable fellow human beings. And he also has a nice friend who’s written a novel, “Measuring the World” with sales figures that make our author’s mother shriek: “When are you going to write something like that?”. With accomplished realism and to mad comic effect, Thomas Glavinic plays with reality and its double – a rare, unusual delight of a read.


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Thomas Glavinic, born 1972 in Graz, has been writing novels, essays, short stories, radio plays and reports since 1991. His crime novel “Der Kameramörder” was awarded the Friedrich-Glauser-Krimipreis in 2002, in 2006 he received the Österreicher Förderungspreis für Literatur. His most recent publication has been “Die Arbeit der Nacht” (2006). Glavinic lives with his family in Vienna.