With his debut novel Der Trost von Telefonzellen (The Solace of Telephone Booths) Joshua Groß
burst onto the scene to the delight of many readers.Magische Rosinen (Magical Raisins) his
second book has already won several prizes (including the Bavarian Prize for the Promotion of
Fine Arts and the Wolfram von Eschenbach Promotional Prize both in 2014).Not surprisingly in
his new novel Joshua Groß once again recounts an extraordinary and magnificently highly-charged
story. Faunenschnitt (Mass Extinction) is set in Austria's Salzkammergut region in high summer
and tells the story of a Nazi secret and a snappy moray eel of postmodern sadness and a
crashed glider of the psychiatric treatment of Thomas Middelhoff of Dali sculptures and a dog
fed on vegan food of the rosy glow of the mountains at sunset and of friendship love and
paranoia. Faunenschnitt outlines one young person's quest for meaning in a world marked by
violence of brave defiance and sly intervention. A fast-paced novel accompanied by the
interplay of color and light in Hannah Gebauer's photographs by images that leave room for
secrecy and discovery.
