It is 2007 and Austria is in the grip of a sinister epidemic: Indigo Syndrome. Children are the carriers, and anyone who comes near them is afflicted with severe headaches, nausea, and vertigo. These Indigo children are sent away to the Helianau Institute in Styria, in the mountainous heart of the country, a protected zone where they cannot affect the wider population. There, one of the teachers, Clemens Setz, witnesses students being taken away in strange masks. They never come back. When Setz tries to find out what is going on, he swiftly loses his job, but he doesn''t give up trying to uncover Helianau''s dark secrets.
Fourteen years later, in 2021, former Indigo child Robert Tatzel notices an article in the newspaper about his old teacher: Clemens Setz has just been acquitted in a brutal murder trial. But Tatzel harbours resentments against Setz from his days at Helianau, and decides to investigate.
Set in a world uncannily familiar and yet entirely strange, Indigo is part thrilling detective story, part post-modern puzzle. Clemens J. Setz has written a novel that will change the way we read novels, and change the way we look at the world.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Profile Books
ISBN: 9781846689536
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 26/08/2014
Año de edición: 2014
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Clemens J. Setz
Clemens J. Setz nació en 1982 en Graz, en cuya universidad estudió matemáticas y lengua y literatura alemanas. Actualmente vive en Viena. Es uno de los escritores en lengua alemana más destacados de las últimas generaciones. Ha escrito novela, ensayo, relato, poesía y teatro y ha recibido numerosos premios por sus obras: Franz-Nabl, Büchner, Leipzig, Kleist, Jakob-Wasserman, Berliner, Merck Kakehashi… Aunque sus libros están publicados en multitud de países, H&O Editores es la primera editorial en lengua castellana en publicar alguno de sus libros.