by Brigitte Schwaiger · Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499143243
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«Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer» is the novel by Brigitte Schwaiger, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (120 pages, in German).
The novel is narrated in the first person and follows a young woman trapped between the provincial bourgeois environment of her family and a marriage that isolates her even more. Schwaiger describes with irony the social conventions, the loss of freedom and the search for identity, turning the personal case into a social critique that remains relevant.
It is Schwaiger's narrative debut, originally published in 1977, and is part of Rowohlt's rororo collection.
Recommended for those seeking classics of twentieth-century Austrian literature and novels of social critique, with potential for reading clubs.
Brigitte Schwaiger was an Austrian author born in Freistadt, Austria.
