Katharina Hacker

• Jan-2002
• / General Fiction
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I noticed the smell coming from the slowly emptying pool. Putrid water now and the putrefaction of all the years; all the years since the baths were built. Do you understand, the old lifeguard said to me, all still here, nothing washes off that easil...

• May-2003
• / Literary
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With great imagination, Katharina Hacker has created seven stories, all inspired by figures of classical mythology. Many crossreferences link the stories, but almost all are set in the modern world. Among the themes are those of (mythological) past a...

• Feb-2008
• / Literary
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Jakob and Isabelle meet at a party on September 11. They marry and move to London, where Jakob takes the post of a colleague killed in the World Trade Center attack. But the couple's relationship, like the world they once knew and the happiness they ...