by Norbert Gstrein · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483101841
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«Los años ingleses» is the novel by Norbert Gstrein, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
A nameless narrator reconstructs the life of Gabriel Hirschfelder, an Austrian Jewish writer who fled Nazism to England and confessed to having killed a man in the war. Her investigations across London, Vienna and the Isle of Man, guided by a card game in a refugee camp and by the voices of his three ex-wives, blur his figure.
Andanzas collection. Written in German and translated into Spanish by Daniel Najmías, with the original title Die englischen Jahre. The manuscript of this novel won the Alfred Döblin Prize in 1999.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction about memory and the consequences of war.
Norbert Gstrein is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol, the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner. He grew up with his five siblings in Vent and attended the secondary school from 1971 to 1979 in Imst. From 1979 to 1984, Gstrein studied mathematics in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen. He not completed his PhD in 1988 at the University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Roman Liedl and Gerhard Frey.
