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Once more, best-selling author Gabriel Barylli breaks fresh ground with this evocative and highly compelling narrative.
A life slipping down the drain … The more Susanna attempts to maintain a semblance of normality, the more she seems to be spiralling down towards the gutter. She loses her job and her home, her partner leaves her, and eventually she becomes completely detached from the world at large – but for the internet, that is. The worldwide-web becomes a life-support system for Susanna: her last connection to society, her final hope of a morsel of love or happiness. But no one is ever quite who they pretend to be - and even more so online. Susanna’s tale, told over the course of a single night in a harrowing monologue, is bleakly inescapable. Will the dawning of the new day bring some light?
Gabriel Barylli, born in Vienna in 1957, is one of the best- known film directors and actors in the Germanspeaking world, his plays amongst the most frequently performed of our time. As well as being 1999’s recipient of the prestigious Adolf Grimme Award for work in German TV, he has written eleven best-selling novels, including 2007’s „Ballerina”, published by LangenMüller, which is currently being made into a movie.
Once more, best-selling author Gabriel Barylli breaks fresh ground with this evocative and highly compelling narrative.
A life slipping down the drain … The more Susanna attempts to maintain a semblance of normality, the more she seems to be spiralling down towards the gutter. She loses her job and her home, her partner leaves her, and eventually she becomes completely detached from the world at large – but for the internet, that is. The worldwide-web becomes a life-support system for Susanna: her last connection to society, her final hope of a morsel of love or happiness. But no one is ever quite who they pretend to be - and even more so online. Susanna’s tale, told over the course of a single night in a harrowing monologue, is bleakly inescapable. Will the dawning of the new day bring some light?
Gabriel Barylli, born in Vienna in 1957, is one of the best- known film directors and actors in the Germanspeaking world, his plays amongst the most frequently performed of our time. As well as being 1999’s recipient of the prestigious Adolf Grimme Award for work in German TV, he has written eleven best-selling novels, including 2007’s „Ballerina”, published by LangenMüller, which is currently being made into a movie.
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