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Availability:In StockContributor:Dominik Barta, Gary Schmidt (Translator)Publish date:2025-04-01Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299351540ISBN-10:299351548UPC:9780299351540Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, City LifeBook Topic:AustriaWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCBQCQ3DZV
In his early thirties, Kurt Endlicher has finally settled down, with a steady job as a teacher and a small flat to call his own. But the walls are thin, and he and his neighbors can overhear every cough, footstep, and toilet flush. Initially annoyed by the intimacy, he gradually learns to appreciate the value of community and discovers the key to his own happiness.

Overheard is set in Vienna in the mid-2010s, a time of significant social change and political conflict, with tens of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees arriving and protests taking place over a caf?'s expulsion of two women who greeted each other with a kiss. Kurt is gay, but his best friend is not. He has a soft spot for the city's newcomers as well as its longtime residents. He's a sympathetic listener, leading him--and the reader--to revisit and reevaluate assumptions.

Originally published as T?r an T?r (literally "door-to-door" but more accurately "next-door neighbors"), Dominik Barta's novel is a page-turner filled with humor, insight, and a suspenseful plot. Overheard combines visions of an idealized past and a longed-for future to create a present that we all want to inhabit.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299351540ISBN-10:299351548UPC:9780299351540Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, City LifeBook Topic:AustriaWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCBQCQ3DZV
Dominik Barta was born in Upper Austria and studied in Vienna, Bonn, and Florence. In addition to T?r an T?r, he published the award-winning Vom Land.

Gary Schmidt, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Wright State University, is the author of The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature, translator of The Summers, cotranslator of What Makes a Man: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin, and coeditor of Quertext: An Anthology of Queer Voices from German-Speaking Europe.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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