← Ilse AichingerBad Wordsby Ilse AichingerFind on Amazon↗About the authorIlse AichingerAustrian author known for her hauntingly compressed, parabolical prose. Her novel The Greater Hope (Die größere Hoffnung) about Jewish children in Nazi Vienna, and her stories are essential works of postwar German-language literature.More by Ilse AichingerThe Greater Hope→Herod's ChildrenNovella about the slaughter of innocents as reimagined through contemporary eyes→Speech Under the Gallows→Eliza Eliza→