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Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as 'Austria's finest postwar writer' and by George Steiner as 'one of the masters of contemporary European fiction'. Faber Finds is proud to reissue a selection of four of Bernhard's finest novels. "Extinction", Bernhard's last published novel, is the story of Franz-Josef Murau - intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family - who lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister's wedding on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg; and he must decide its fate.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Extinction
• Author: Thomas Bernhard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334
• EAN: 9780571289226
• ISBN: 0571289223
• ID: 04624438
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 420 g
• Dimensions: 141 × 217 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. February 2013

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