"Literature Talks in the City Library" is an open series of events for anyone interested in literature, moderated by literary scholar Dorothea Berg.

The year is 1994. In a Carinthian village at the foot of the Karawanken mountains, the narrator sits under a truck and observes the world and the people knee-deep. She is eleven years old and playing hide and seek with her friend Luca from Bosnia. For the last time, because the family is moving. Gradually, more and more neighbors arrive to help with the move, and the child in her hiding place begins to talk: about her fear of being drowned in the Katzlteich pond because she has short hair. Because he wears boy's jeans. Because he is secretly in love with Luca. And she's not the only one who has to hide something. She knows stories about the new arrivals that reveal deep abysses and yet also awaken compassion.

In her debut novel, Julia Jost describes growing up in an archaic mountain world between the regulars' table and the confessional - and how to survive here as a child standing on the edge and defying the established order.

Julia Jost, born in Carinthia, Austria, in 1982, studied philosophy, sculpture and theater directing. In 2019, she was awarded the Kelag Prize for an excerpt from "Wo der spitzeste Zahn der Karawanken ...".

Time: 6.15 p.m.
Cost: free
Location: Euskirchen, Stadtbibliothek, Wilhelmstr. 32-34
Info tel.: 02251. 6507450
Email: bibliothek@euskirchen.de