The Greater Hope

Name: The Greater Hope
Author: Ilse Aichinger

About the author

Austrian 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.

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