»Fanzi«Siblings Franz and Elfi share an incredibly close bond growing up on the rural countryside during World War II. With his older brothers being drafted and his parents too busy with trying to make ends meet, he is mainly responsible for taking care of his younger sister. They make the best out of their situation but when Elfi falls ill and ends up mentally disabled afterwards, she is taken away and Franz whole world is turned upside down. Decades later, Franz, now widowed, is still unable to come to terms with what has happened. Only when his son and granddaughter start asking questions, he is ready to face the past.A moving novel about a well-kept family secret and how guilt works over generations. All rights available

Elisabeth Schmidauer, geboren 1961 in Linz, Studium der Germanistik und Geschichte, lebt und arbeitet in Wien. Mitglied des ur.theaters, Improvisationsschauspielerin im Theater Drachengasse in Wien. Im Picus Verlag erschienen ihre Romane »Das Grün in Doras Augen«, »Am dunklen Fluss« sowie 2019 »Mord für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene«.