A truly terrifying short little novel. Told through a series of vignettes involving some transcript, authorial interpolation, and an element of fictive fabrication, this novel is about the build to and eventual annexation of Austria in 1938. To understand the smallness of the scope of this novel, I think it’s about focusing in sharp detail on the event itself, a bloodless (kind of) coup against Austria, and one that had overwhelming support of many Austrians, less the Austrians denied the right to vote, murdered, excluded, […]