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Iris Hanika was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2021 for her novel Echoes Chambers.
The jury's statement:
»Iris Hanika proves to be a clever, witty and wild narrator. As one of the most headstrong voices in contemporary German literature, who can look at social conditions with a brutally clear and unabashed view. And then again incredibly funny.«
In Echoes Chambers, Iris Hanika impressively demonstrates her skills as artful, ingenious storyteller. We are travelling to New York to accompany the poet Sophonisbe. She follows an invitation to come to the »City of Dreams« for ten weeks before returning to Berlin, where Roxana, the novel’s second protagonist and a successful writer of self-help books, takes over.
The two women get caught up in various incidents, excesses and digressions, including with a young bourgeois who gives the story another sharp twist. Nevertheless, this book does not just speak of mature delusional love – it is also about Echo and Narcissus. The intricately woven episodes are brimming with a boisterous thirst for knowledge, a good dose of life’s reality and merciless criticism of capitalism.
Echoes Chambers, a travel as well as a romance novel, but also an action novel and self-help book, provides for great literary joy.
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Reviews
»A novel that is so fantastic that you wish it all readers, and above all readers of the world.« (Bettina Hartz, FAS)
» A multi-layered and artistically mirrored artifact that comes along light-footed, plays ironically with its own knowledge of the world and life and radiates a very contemporary, hopeless serenity.« (Sigrid Löffler, Radio Bremen)
»Quite argumentative, often funny and entertaining from start to finish.« (René Hamann, taz)
»Iris Hanika’s novel is challenging, unusual, eloquent, political, entertaining and now at the top of the best lists.« (Irene Prugger, Wiener Zeitung)
» Iris Hanika has written a literary capriccio on a graceful subject, with a lot of knowledge in the background, as a conversation piece that can be discussed excellently in the salons of the big cities.« (Rose-Maria Gropp, FAZ)
»Literary finesse and easy reading at the same time – this art novel is an immensely funny romance novel and a city novel rolled into one.« (Joachim Scholl, Deutschlandfunk Lesart)
»Many people have written about New York but rarely have modern city life and myth got entangled as beautifully as in Iris Hanika’s new novel Echoes Chambers.« (Stefan Kister, Stuttgarter Zeitung)
»Written with incredible ironic finesse and effortlessness.« (Michael Braun, Deutschlandradio)
»Echoes Chambers is a partly extremely funny novel about language, literature, delusional love and life.« (Sophie Weigand, Buchkultur)
»Greatly entertaining. And as a matter of fact a really unprecedented book.« (Jan Ehlert, NDR Kultur)
»The new novel by Iris Hanika cannot be read without feeling dizzy. Delightful.« (Barbara Weitzel, Welt am Sonntag)
Author Biography
Iris Hanika, born in Würzburg in 1962, has lived in Berlin since 1979. She was a staff writer for the Berlin section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and contributed a chronicle to Merkur magazine (summer 2000 – summer 2008).
At Droschl she published the novels Treffen sich zwei (Two People Meeting, 2008), Das Eigentliche (The ultimate thing, 2010), Tanzen auf Beton (Dancing on Concrete, 2012) and Wie der Müll geordnet wird (How the waste is put in order, 2015). Iris Hanika was awarded the Hans Fallada Prize (2006), shortlisted for the German Book Prize (2008) and she won the European Union Prize for Literature (2010), the Prize of LiteraTourNord (2011), Hermann-Hesse-Prize (2020) and Leipzig Book Fair Prize (2021).
»An author who writes wittily, sincerely and without the slightest sensationalism.« (Spiegel)
Literaturverlag Droschl GmbH
Droschl is publishing international authors like Lydia Davis, Oksana Sabuschko, Georgi Gospodinov or Julien Gracq as well as German writing authors like Iris Hanika, Ilma Rakusa, Thomas Stangl, Monique Schwitter, Thomas Jonigk or Werner Schwab. The names speak for themselves, they stand for an attitude that does not consider literature as representation but as protest and comment from the fringe. We want to address the reader’s curiosity, those who want to discover something, who focus on words, whose one great love is language, many languages, the innumerable manners of speech.
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- Publication Date June 2020
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783990590560
- Publication Country or regionAustria
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 22 EUR
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEchos Kammern
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions21x13 cm
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