What’s in a life? How do you capture it? How do you focus on the essential parts? My Alphabet reflects the abundance and diversity of life – its seriousness and its joys, its mundane routines and its deeply meaningful events.
»What this book is about? It is about everything. About what was, what is and what might be. It’s about games, about love, beauty, light – and about death and memories that will turn to dust and be replaced by imagination.« (Stefan Gmünder, Der Standard)
A moving coming-of-age novel about friendship and loss, in which the promise of departure and a new beginning is almost tangible.
An exceptional debut that tells the imponderables of an entire life in an inspiringly poetic manner
»Inferno is a real discovery. An expressive, almost cinematic piece of literature that gives a silhouette of the time between the first pogroms and the end of World War II.« (Paul Jandl, NZZ)
»There are books that take your breath, that fill every single muscle with highest tension, and that take possession of the reader. Ally Kleins debut novel is definitely one of those stirring books.« (Björn Hayer, Spiegel Online)
Here you can read an interview of Andrea Scrima with Ally Klein.
»Bernhard Strobel manages with the cold view of a surgeon to capture even the smallest proliferation in the mesh of a relationship. His novel is an interpersonal psycho-thriller.«
(Ulrich Rüdenauer, Süddeutsche Zeitung)
»A literary concept album with a visual prose-poetry that is accessible and catchy as well as it has the spirit of the teenage rebellion like the best songs of the history of rock music.« (Gerald Lind, literaturhaus.at)