Thursday, April 9, 2026
7:15 PM
Analog Bookstore
Otto Bauer-Gasse 6
1060 Vienna
FREE ADMISSION

BLURB:

Once upon a time, seventeen years ago: Mario loves Anna, Anna loves Mario.

Almost overnight, the actress Anna becomes famous as a TV detective. Soon, the letters begin to arrive. They are threatening, alluding to Anna’s past: “I know what you did.” – “I saw it.” – “You will return to the scene of your crime.” There is only one person who could know about it: Mario, her teenage love. Since he dropped out of school seventeen years ago and moved to Sicily, they have not seen each other. And now, of all times, he gets back in touch.

Reluctantly, Anna agrees to meet him. She fears that Mario wants to blackmail her. But the reunion turns out very differently than expected. Then, suddenly, others from the past reappear: Dean, who ran away to Sicily with Mario. And Judy, the girl with a thousand invented stories, whom Mario could never resist. What do they want from Anna? What do they know?

“At many points, the narrative reads like a crime thriller—although it is not one. With powerful, profound, and finely nuanced language, the author has created a literary masterpiece.”

(Quote from a review by Anna Lemberger)