Marianne FritzMarianne Fritz (1948-2007) was an Austrian novelist. Her first book, THE WEIGHT OF THINGS, marked the beginning of an ambitious cycle of novels with the overarching title of Festung, or The Fortress, comprising Das Kind der Gewalt und di Sterne der Romani, Dessen Sprache du nicht verstehst, and the gargantuan Naturgemäß, the third volume of which she was preparing at the time of her death.

Translator Adrian Nathan West is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation as well as the translator of numerous works of contemporary European literature. He lives between Spain and the United States with the cinema critic Beatriz Leal Riesco. Read More Read Less