THE UNCLE

  • A hawk in the chicken coop. This roguish novel is as cheeky, funny and dangerous as its hero.

Racy, nonchalant, funny – with an uncle like this, who needs enemies.

Mike Bittini is a gambler and a philanderer, he always has been. After 17 years on the road, he returns to Vienna in his old Ford Escort and his white leather boots. His brother, a successful property lawyer, is in a coma. Now Mike sneaks into Sandro’s villa like a hawk in the chicken coop.

Sandro’s wife Gloria is anything but happy to see Mike again. She knows him only too well. And soon enough, the unpredictable uncle has managed to get his brother’s two teenage children on his side, is behaving as if he were the head of the household, starts fighting with the neighbours and declares war on Gloria’s mother.

Mike is a catalyst of suppressed emotions, everything that he touches explodes. But chaos sometimes means liberation. Especially when the things are not as well sorted as they seem.

And Gloria is cast back to the time when she chose Sandro over Mike. Was that the biggest mistake of her life? Or is she just about to make that mistake now?

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hundert Augen
  • Release: 15.11.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-00329-6
  • 320 Pages
  • Author: Michael Ostrowski

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THE UNCLE
Michael Ostrowski THE UNCLE
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Michael Ostrowski

Michael Ostrowski , born in 1973 in Leoben, studied English and French in Graz, Oxford and New York. He then became a theatre, television and film actor. Ostrowski also regularly works as a presenter and directs. He lives with the actress Hilde Dalik, and they have four children. Der Onkel   is his first novel.