Author: Enis Maci, Damien Laing (trans.)In 'Eiscafé Europa', Enis Maci weaves together memory, politics, literature, and history, creating a tapestry of a threadbare continent. First published in German in 2018 by Suhrkamp Verlag, the book has been translated to English for HELA Press by local translator Damien Laing/Mittas with a new postscript from the author.Described as ‘razor-sharp, wonderfully meandering, incredibly entertaining and unsettling at the same time’, (Spiegel Online), Eiscafé Europa is a work of poetic precision.In the book Maci retraces a youth spent among the ruins of the coal age, and turns to gender traitors and enemies of the state – Joan of Arc and Sophie Scholl, Albania’s long-gone sworn virgins and the Jewish nun Edith Stein. Maci questions mother tongue and origin, and dissects the Identitarian Movement’s fascist lineage, media strategies and make-up techniques. Enis Maci (b. 1993, Gelsenkirchen) is the author of the essays Eiscafé Europa and Karl May, the novel Pando, and a number of plays, including WUNDER. Her work has been staged, among others, at Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Vienna, and Sala Beckett in Barcelona.ISBN 9781917913027. HELA Press. pb. 11 x 17 cm.available
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