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Article: IN PRAISE OF MAN-SLAUGHTER?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 10, 1996
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Although the continent is nearer to us than ever thanks to the
Channel Tunnel, only a handful of European novels catch the train
to Britain each year. Lilian Faschinger, an Austrian, is the latest
European literary commercial author to reach our reticent shores
after the recent successes of Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling
for Snow and Jortsein Gaarder's Sophie's World. Her third novel,
Magdalena the Sinner, was the book of last year's Frankfurt Book
Fair (which bore Austria as its theme) with publishers queueing to
buy foreign rights to the book. Her British publishers, Headline,
paid "a mid-high five figure sum" after another publisher had put
down a pounds 30,000 floor, even though ...