Alle Eulen

by Filip Florian, Georg Aescht (Translator)

Ungleiche Freunde sind Luca, der Junge aus der Kleinstadt, und Emil, der nach einem bewegten Leben in der großen Stadt Bukarest unverhofft in der Provinz landet. Emil öffnet Lucas Blick und Geist für Literatur und Musik, Luca schenkt ihm seine Neugierde und liefert den letzten Dorfklatsch. In den Nächten des Karpatensommers streifen die beiden durch die Wälder, durchdringen die wilde, mythenreiche Berglandschaft und lernen die Sprache der Eulen.
Ein zarter, mit spitzbübischem Humor erzählter Roman von großer Klugheit, der mit Sprach- und Fabulierlust die großen Geschichten zweier kleiner Leben erzählt. Filip Florian gelingt mit diesem Buch ein leidenschaftliches Lob der Freundschaft und zeigt, dass es bisweilen reicht, seinen Blickwinkel leicht zu ändern, um glücklich zu sein und die Fülle des Lebens zu sehen.

300 pages, Hardcover

Published February 29, 2016

About the author

Between 1990-99, he worked as a journalist and editor for the Cuvîntul (The Word) weekly and then as a correspondent for the Free Europe and Deutsche Welle radio stations. He spent five years in the mountain town of Sinaia writing his first novel Little Fingers, which was published to great critical acclaim in 2005. Greeted as the work of a distinctive and original new voice, the novel was awarded the România literarã (Literary Romania) magazine Prize for Debut, the Romanian Writers’ Union Prize for Best Prose Debut, and the National Union of Employers Prize for Excellence.

Together with Matei Florian, his younger brother, Filip Florian recently published the unusual dialogic novel The Băiuț Alley Lads (2006), also warmly praised by critics and the reading public alike. In 2007, second editions of both books were printed. Little Fingers has been published in Hungary (Magvetö, 2008), Germany (Suhrkamp, 2008) and Poland (Czarne, 2008) and will be published in the USA (Harcourt, 2009) and Slovenia (Didakta, 2009). The Băiuț Alley Lads is also due to be published by Czarne in 2009, and is also due to be published in Spain (Acantilado) and Bulgaria (Panorama +). The Days of the King has been published in Hungary (Magvetö, 2009), and will be published in the USA in 2011 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).