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coming of age
cooking
cremant
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literary fiction
middle age
new apartment
ottolenghi
sexual tension
sexual tensions
social satire
social striving
translated fiction
vienna
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- ISBN 9781805331780
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2026
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Brilliantly clever' IRISH TIMES
'Moreish' GUARDIAN
An evening of perfect preparation. A night of uninvited chaos.
In her stylish apartment, the hostess is hard at work. She folds linen napkins, arranges wildflowers and cues up algorithmically chosen soft jazz to project an effortless cool.
Every detail is chosen with care, which makes it all the more galling when her guests arrive late and already drunk. As small talk becomes slurred confessions and lost inhibitions, the hostess struggles to maintain control over an evening far beyond her wildest imaginings.
'Amusing and delightfully compact' DAILY MAIL
'Thoroughly enjoyable' AYSEGÜL SAVAS
'I loved it' CLAIRE POWELL
'Get the crémant open' GQ
Teresa Präauer is a prize-winning Austrian author, essayist and playwright. She is a literary columnist for German newspapers and magazines, and lectures at universities internationally. Cooking in the Wrong Century is the first of her novels to be translated into English and received the highly prestigious Bremer Literaturpreis.
