Die Märchen

As a child, Michael Köhlmeier listened to or read fairy tales – today he writes the fairy tales of our time: not retellings of familiar stories, but his own inventions, disturbing, eerie tales. About the sad woman and the envious doctor, about Snowflower and Kasgsichtl. Each story is accompanied by a mysterious illustration by Nikolaus Heidelbach. And behind talking animals and silent humans, the age-old question from the most secret of all fairy tales echoes: What has become of the first humans after they were expelled from paradise? Because they have not died, they still live today, reveals Michael Köhlmeier's incomparable household book.