Three Novellas Fortune-telling & divination and dark currents swirling beneath

and dark currents swirling beneath

‘Emma Cowell creates worlds of warmth

whose son's quest leads him to a cure for his father's blindness

and significant portions of his work have been overlooked

Atkinson is a novelist of unrivalled immediacy

Three Novellas Fortune-telling & divination and dark currents swirling beneathThomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (New York Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, Thomas Bernhard still remains relatively unknown in America. Uninitiated readers should consider Three Novellas a passport to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic