by Eugen Ruge · tapa dura · ISBN 9783498057954
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«Cabo de Gata» is the novel by Eugen Ruge, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in hardback (202 pages, in German).
A solitary writer leaves everything behind and travels by train south to the Andalusian coast. In Cabo de Gata, a fishing village, he stays at a guesthouse whose owner is hostile to him. The locals seem to be hiding something. His only connection is a wild cat. Ruge narrates the flight, the failure and the possibility of starting over.
Originally published in German in 2013, the work is categorised as Literature and Fiction. The cover bears the subtitle «Roman».
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, with a story of escape and self-reencounter in a coastal village.
Eugen Ruge is a German writer, director and translator from Russian. In 2011 he won the German Book Prize for In Times of Fading Light.
