On the train
A writer and a therapist meet on a train. This is not the beginning of an anecdote, but of a catchy conversational comedy by the Austrian bestseller!
In a train compartment on the journey from Vienna to Munich, a mismatched pair of strangers, Eduard Brünhofer, an elderly burnt-out author of successful love novels, and Catrin Meyer, a middle-aged therapist shrouded in mystery, meet by chance. A writer suffering from writer's block strikes up an intimate conversation with an unknown woman almost against his will, but it turns out to be unbearably one-sided. While Eduard gradually reveals the most intimate aspects of his own existence and his views on literature, marriage and life in general, his companion suspiciously holds back and asks him difficult questions, which he writes about in his novels but does not really know the answers to: How to be happy with someone for years? What to do to stay yourself in a relationship? What exactly is the appeal of infidelity? The cornered novelist begins to realise that this encounter could be one of those fateful ones...
The author of the award-winning Good Against the North and Every Seventh Wave returns with intimate prose full of sharp humour and apt observations on the craft of writing and relationships.
They wrote about the book:
Daniel Glattauer's new novel is a witty comedy play and deservedly another bestseller.
- Die Zeit
Glattauer is read in one breath! The Good vs. the North and the slightly more oppressive novel Forever Yours are still some of my greatest reading experiences. It's a blast to have him back with a new book after all these years!
- Lukáš Hejlík, Listování.cz
Daniel Glattauer
(* 1960) Born in the Austrian capital, he studied education and art history and worked as a journalist for two well-known Viennese newspapers, Die Presse and Der Standard. He made his literary debut in 1997 with the novel Theo und der Rest der Welt (Theo and the Rest of the World), but only became famous with the love novel in e-mails Good Against the North (2006, no. 2010), which became a bestseller, has been translated into more than thirty-five languages and has been adapted many times for the stage and radio. At the request of enthusiastic readers, the sequel Every Seventh Wave (2009, no. 2012), which was similarly successful. In 2010, both books were also made into film versions, for which the author wrote the screenplay. His prose Forever Yours (2012, no. 2013) and You're Welcome (2014, no 2015), to which in 2025 was added the novelty In the Train. In his books, the award-winning writer rightly shows repeatedly what a tasteful and entertaining literary mainstream should look like in the best sense of the word.
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