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  • A suspenseful novel that delves into the complexities of a father-son relationship and the timeless themes of guilt and forgiveness.A longboat plummets over the Great Falls, drowning the five passengers on board. The Lockmaster, the heir to an ancien...



  • Richly imagined and recounted in vivid prose of extraordinary beauty, this book is a stunning illustration of Ransmayr's talent for imbuing a captivating tale with intense metaphorical, indeed metaphysical force. The world's most powerful man, Q...



  • In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out -- if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is ...



  • From Christoph Ransmayr, whose brilliant rise to preeminence among the younger generation of writers in the German language was recently crowned when he shared with Salman Rushdie Europe's most prestigious new literary award, the Aristeion Prize--a n...



  • A man goes in search of the Roman poet Ovid, banished to the end of the world. He finds that Ovid's personality and stories have undergone a sea-change, and have fragmented themselves into lots of clues - people, bizarre events, odd stretches of land...



  • A man attempts to explain the disappearance of an Italian explorer in the Arctic in 1981 by reconstructing an Austrian expedition of a century before and, in the process, dispels many cherished notions about heroism...




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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Christoph Ransmayr has published 6 books.

Christoph Ransmayr does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lockmaster, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Christoph Ransmayr, Terrors of ice and Darkness, was published in June 1996.

No. Christoph Ransmayr does not write books in series.