The Honditsch CrossA powerful historical work about war and its victims, never before in English, from the celebrated author of Malina Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of Austria in 1813. A young theology student, returning from Vienna to his family home in Carinthia, finds the invading troops stationed there,

and misplaced trust continually lands him in ridiculous and hilarious situations

almost a year after America entered the Second World War

who remember their dispossessions on two continents

We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles

As instruments fail

“Pricksongs & Descants

But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange

a deceptive editor’s best friend—and ugly tales of exploitation

up the coast of California

with a group of English immigrants

” —The Washington Post

and the weight of legacy