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Wolf Haas

Biography

Wolf Haas

Wolf Haas was born in 1960 and has received multiple international prizes, including the Bremen Literature Prize, the Wilhelm Raabe Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize. His novels include PROPERTY, which won the 2024 Erich Kästner Prize; THE WEATHER FIFTEEN YEARS AGO; DEFENSE OF THE MISSIONARY POSITION; YOUNG MAN; and nine Detective Brenner crime novels. He lives in Vienna.

Wolf Haas

Books by Wolf Haas

Short Circuit
written by Wolf Haas, translated by Jamie Bulloch - Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Mystery, Mystery

Franz Escher is waiting for the electrician. His power outlet has a loose connection. To pass the time, he buries himself in a book about a Mafioso-turned-informant, Elio Russo. Elio is in jail, awaiting his imminent release into witness protection. He has betrayed so many people that he fears for his life. Unable to sleep, he lies awake at night reading a book about a man named Franz Escher, who's waiting for the electrician. His power outlet has a loose connection. So begins SHORT CIRCUIT, an inventive new take on the detective novel. Styled after one of M.C. Escher’s impossible drawings, its two stories gradually intertwine only to solve each other, culminating in one final short circuit.