Read a book from each country discussion

Elfriede Jelinek's "The Piano Teacher" -- she won the Nobel.

Stefan Zweig's "Chess Story", Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities"

About Elfriede Jelinek - I don't know why she got the Nobel Price. "The Piano teacher" and all her books are just weird.

The Radetzky March by Joseph March. I thought The Piano Teacher was pretty strange, too, but I read it for a book club and was living in Vienna at the time, so I finished it.

Hi Carol,
you probably mean The Radetzky March by Joseph ROTH , in stead of March.
He is indeed an amazing author, one of my favourites!
his other works are worth reading too.

Thanks Noane, for catching that, I did mean Joseph Roth. The Radetzky March wasn't a great hit in my book club, but I liked it a lot and would like to read more by him . . . so many books, so little time!

Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick A Novel by Peter Handke

Sleeping in Flame
This takes place partially in Vienna and partially in Los Angeles. The author is American; does that count? It's still a very interesting book, but maybe because it takes place in the era when I lived in Vienna.

For those who read in german i can recommend the novels of wolf haas...he's written a whole series of crime novels creating the figure of "detective brenner" - a really hilarious loser protagonist and the setting is always very "austrian". most of them have been put into film versions as well. unfortunately i didn't find an english translation so far, but maybe some of you will enjoy them anyway (Daisy, you've been living in vienna, haven't you?)

Ingeborg Bachmann "Malina" - a strange one but worth reading

Extinction by Thomas Bernhard