The Snowman
by Jörg Fauser

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“Jörg Fauser was a fascinating train wreck: a fiercely intelligent literary critic who also wrote the occasional nudie-magazine filler; a junkie who got clean in his thirties only to become an alcoholic; a tragic figure who died mysteriously at 43 in a 1987 Autobahn accident. Oh, and along the way he managed to crank out one of the most indelible crime novels in German history. First published in 1981, The Snowman is a classic loser’s tale in which Blum, a low-rent black market fence, unexpectedly finds himself with $600,000 worth of high grade cocaine and no idea how to sell it. Fauser chronicles his increasingly desperate attempts with a gimlet eye and a black, acerbic (so, German) wit, creating an unflinchingly brilliant tale of a perspective--the outsider among outsiders--he knew all too well.” Ruminator

Author Information
Jörg Fauser, born in Germany in 1944, was a novelist, essayist and journalist. Having broken his dependency on heroin at the age of thirty he spent much of the rest of his working life dependent on alcohol.

The Translator
Anthea Bell's recent translations include E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr', W.G. Sebald's 'Austerlitz', and Sigmund Freud's 'The Psychopathology of Everyday Life'.

Praise for The Snowman
''Although the writing is wonderfully spare, there are some extremely exotic scenes and characters in 'The Snowman'. Fauser's description of an arty/druggie party in Munich is absolutely delicious...'' Shotsmag

'' Goethe Institut

Internet links
Fauser-All of Fauser published by Alexander Verlag
www.joergfauser.de

Fauser website
www.xn--jrg-fauser-ecb.de/