Cooking in the Wrong Century
Published on 8. May 2025
176 pages
978-1-80533-179-7 (ISBN)
Description
'Brilliantly clever' IRISH TIMES
'Moreish' GUARDIAN
An evening of perfect preparation. A night of uninvited chaos.
In her stylish apartment, the hostess is hard at work. She folds linen napkins, arranges wildflowers and cues up algorithmically chosen soft jazz to project an effortless cool.
Every detail is chosen with care, which makes it all the more galling when her guests arrive late and already drunk. As small talk becomes slurred confessions and lost inhibitions, the hostess struggles to maintain control over an evening far beyond her wildest imaginings.
A BREAKOUT FAVOURITE WITH READERS:
'Gobbled this up in a day'
'Ponders what adulting actually means'
'If you liked Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection, read this'
'A lyrical homage to food memories'
'Funny and very clever. A must-read'
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Teresa Präauer is a prize-winning Austrian author, essayist and playwright. She is a literary columnist for German newspapers and magazines, and lectures at universities internationally. Cooking in the Wrong Century is the first of her novels to be translated into English and received the highly prestigious Bremer Literaturpreis.
