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Lost / Der Verlorene
»Not since The Reader has a work of fiction so stunningly evoked the guilt and shame that resounds in postwar Germany. In this debut novel of astonishing originality, we bear witness to a family ravaged with regret at the loss of their child.


As a young boy, the narrator learns that his parents lost their firstborn son while fleeing the advancing Russian Army in 1945. Though his family has comfortably settled in Westphalen, the memory of Arnold continues to haunt them. The...
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»Not since The Reader has a work of fiction so stunningly evoked the guilt and shame that resounds in postwar Germany. In this debut novel of astonishing originality, we bear witness to a family ravaged with regret at the loss of their child.


As a young boy, the narrator learns that his parents lost their firstborn son while fleeing the advancing Russian Army in 1945. Though his family has comfortably settled in Westphalen, the memory of Arnold continues to haunt them. The narrator shares his parents' anguish, but he can't resist feeling resentful, for his brother's absence is the most defining aspect of his life. When his parents learn of a foundling that resembles Arnold, they embark on a horrific quest to claim him as their own, only to endure a series of unanticipated twists that lead to a startling denouement. At turns uncanny, subtle, and perversely amusing, Lost is a chilling novel of mesmerizing power.« (from the book description of the English edition published by Pantheon)

»A brilliant tragicomic story.« The New York Times

»Treichel’s poetic genius allows the fertile ambiguities that Grass and Heinrich Böll planted so adroitly a generation ago to water the guilt and obsession of this particular […] family.« Los Angeles Times Book Review

»Tragic, strange and agonisingly funny, Lost terrifies through its logic and grasp of truth adrift in an atmosphere of crazy hope and helpless despair.« Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times

»Treichel's finely tuned prose moves at high velocity in a continuous text virtually bare of paragraphs and chapters [...] as the novel ticks from beginning to end like expert, ominous clockwork, measuring out blackly comedic alienation against the bleak backdrop of postwar Germany.« Publishers Weekly
»A brilliant tragicomic story.« The New York Times

»Treichel’s poetic genius allows the fertile ambiguities that Grass and Heinrich Böll planted so adroitly a generation ago to water the guilt and obsession of this particular […] family.« Los Angeles Times Book Review

»Tragic, strange and agonisingly funny, Lost terrifies through its logic and grasp of truth adrift in an atmosphere of crazy hope...
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1998, 176 pages
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in Versmold, Westphalia, in 1952. He now lives in Berlin and Leipzig and was professor of German Literature at the University of Leipzig. His works have been translated into 28 languages.

Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in Versmold, Westphalia, in 1952. He now lives in Berlin and Leipzig and was professor of German Literature at the...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Better Than Ever
Year of Publication: 2021
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2021

To be like Erik just once! That’s what Andreas has always wanted, and that’s why he has been trying to make friends with Erik – always polite, enviably relaxed, but ultimately unapproachable –...

Rights sold to:

France (Gallimard)

 

Daybreak
Year of Publication: 2016
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2016

Daybreak leads into the centre of Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s writings, up and close to the pain points of loss and forlornness. This is the powerful, doleful story of a woman who...

Rights sold to:

France (Gallimard)

Early Disturbance
Year of Publication: 2014
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2014
Hans-Ulrich Treichel tells the story of Franz, whose life is weighed down by his pathological attachment to his mother. Mother, mother: he simply cannot shake that constant buzzing in his head. Not on his therapist’s couch, not in Berlin, his childhood home, not while travelling, not in his relationship with Andrea.


Early Disturbance is the story of a...

Grunewaldsee
Year of Publication: 2010
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2010
On an olive-strewn seaside property in Spain and the dog urine-steeped beaches of the Grunewaldsee, bestselling author Hans-Ulrich Treichel weaves his two characters into a love story. It is...
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France (Gallimard)

Anatolin
Year of Publication: 2008
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2008
In search of his own memories, the hero of this cheerful-melancholy novel realizes that an »autobiographical evacuation« has taken place. His lost brother dominates his childhood,...
Rights sold to:

France (Gallimard), Poland (Czytelnik)

The Pope I knew
Year of Publication: 2007
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2007
»I could also say that I speak English as well as I play the piano. And I do play the piano very well. Enviably well. English has always been my first foreign language and Italian only my third. So you can figure out how well I play the piano when I tell you that the Italian that I speak better than quite a number of Italians is only my third foreign language.«


Of course he knew Pope John...
A Man's Flight
Year of Publication: 2005
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2005
Not every wish has to come true. Even an academic can be happy. For a time, at least. But shortly before his 52th birthday, Stephan begins to be haunted by unusual fears and dreams and besides there...
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France (Gallimard)

Earthly Amor
Year of Publication: 2002
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2002
When Albert meets the beautiful Elena he falls head over heels in love. Is she the woman he wishes to share his life with, the woman he has always sought, and will she, after he has hesitated...
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English world rights (Pantheon), Chinese simplex rights (People’s Literature Publishing House), Russia (AST), France (Hachette), Italy (Neri Pozza), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Norway (Pax), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Turkey (Iletisim)

Trista­nakko­­rd
Year of Publication: 2000
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2000

Rights sold to:

Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Russia (Limbus), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Sweden (Wahlström & Widstrand), Norway (Pax), Poland (Czytelnik), Lithuania (Alma Littera)

Der einzi­ge Gast
Year of Publication: 1994
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 1994


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