NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED 2011:

 GERMAN WRITER VOLKER BRAUN EXPRESSES ABOUT MILENA ODA AND HER NEW DEBUT NOVEL:

I am delighted to see Milena Oda’s novel "Nennen Sie mich Diener" published, not least because it has revived a tradition which connects German, Czech and Jewish culture after decades in which no German literary voices have been heard from Prague. Milena Oda, who writes in German, yet speaks it with a Czech accent, has brought this accent back into German literature. A spirited, strange and stimulating pulse beats through her sentences. They remind us that writing can mean discovery, can reveal new depths. Above all she shows us the human weaknesses and defects which are actually obsessions, actually passions. She shows exceptional human beings, isolated within themselves, shows their abnormal needs, curious desires. They lay themselves bare and know no shame. But however perverse their disgrace might seem, it is simply the unbandaged wound we usually choose not to lick – we, the normal ones, who live without burdens and perish without dreams. /// Volker Braun, German Writer

• DEBUT-NOVEL:

 "NENNEN SIE MICH DIENER" // ENGLISH: PLEASE CALL MY SERVANT/ PUBLISHED IN GERMANY BY SCHUMACHERGEBLER, DRESDEN 2011 www.verlag.schumachergebler.de

The novel is about:

Two disturbed men, obsessed by their own rules and systems: Leonard believes he is an obedient servant but serves only himself, according to a system of serving rules he himself has determined. Professor King can only relate to the world through arithmetic; he is a numbers collector who has developed a system for measuring every footstep. He employs Leonard believing he can manipulate him. Leonard believes he has finally found a master he can serve. Both men founder on the rocks of their demands and desires. Milena Oda has created two extraordinary figures, authentically masculine, and with them a dysfunctional fairy tale with a bizarre and a surprising ending.

• PROSE / SHORTSTORY published in GERMAN and CZECH languages in one book :

FERENC.LIEBESERKLÄRUNG AN DIE SCHUHE / VYZNÁNÍ LÁSKY K BOTÁM.

IN ENGLISH: FERENC. THE EXPRESSION OF THE LOVE ON THE SHOES

PUBLISHING HOUSE: VERZONE. PRAGUE, 2011 www.verzone.cz

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WHERE TO BUY MILENA ODA´S BOOKS?

by the publishers, see the homepages.

www.booklooker.de, www.amazon.com, www.buchhandel.de