»Rakusa’s poems are characterized by an artistic balance of pathos and casualness. This is the tone of the present, this is how life sounds today.« (Franz Schuh, WDR5)

No Day Without is a lyrical chronicle of the years 2020 to 2022 – personal, intimate and at the same time Ilma Rakusa’s most political book.

Encounters with people and places, temporary breaks from the loneliness, in Zurich and Graz, on Mont Ventoux and in the Slovenian karst are the central elements in these fourteen narratives.

Autobiographical stops from an author, who found her emotional home in music and literature.

Considerations about the priority of time.

Troubling news and gloomy forecasts characterize the present and preoccupy the eminent Swiss author Ilma Rakusa. In diary prose, poems, monologues, and dialogues, she traces—over a span of two and a half years beginning in the summer of 2022 — an inner journey reflected in the mirror of the outside world.

A book about age and growing old, that leaves no one untouched.

A novel about the nagging feeling to always be missing out on the present.

In his first novel, Stefan Schmitzer takes the reader to troublesome spots in our cities, our social lives: hardship, violence, lack of perspectives – the perfect conditions for a very special action movie.

Ever since childhood, Klara’s life has been shaped by persistent health problems, having minor illnesses linger far longer than they would normally. Later, she experiences breakdowns and exhaustion. The symptoms are obvious to her, but no one can offer a diagnosis, treatment, or a cure.

There is no other noun that is so metaphorically exploited as »the heart«.

»This novel is staggeringly beautiful. It keeps soliciting the reader’s empathy and shows once more the complexity, and above all fragility, of the human soul.« (Gerlinde Tamerl, Der Standard)

»With the current novel Ocean Breeze the author succeeds in a masterpiece on a narrow space.« (Sylvia Treidl, Buchkultur)

What lies beneath the grass we walk on? What stories does the landscape hide, and which ones does it reveal?

»A grand document of literary disillusion, inebriated by language.« (NZZ)

»They are formulas which, in an uncomfortable way, are made up of language itself …« (Elfriede Jelinek)

Several theatre classics, translated into »Schwabian«.

A surreal chamber play in the far north, in which a promising cultural assignment becomes a bloody nightmare for a young woman.

Testimonials of one of the most important Austrian authors of the 1990s

Besides Schwabs numerous plays, this is his first published novel.