by Norbert Gstrein · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483103418
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«El oficio de matar» is the contemporary fiction novel by Norbert Gstrein, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (328 pages, in Spanish).
After the death in Kosovo of journalist Christian Allmayer, Paul, a travel writer who knew him as a student, reconstructs his life in a book. With his girlfriend Helena he travels through Croatia and Bosnia in the footsteps of the correspondent, and seeks out the general he interviewed to ask him what it feels like to kill someone.
The work belongs to the Andanzas collection, number 608. The Spanish translation is by Rosa Pilar Blanco. The work was awarded the Uwe Johnson Prize.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in war journalism and the recent history of the Balkans.
Norbert Gstrein is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol, the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner. He grew up with his five siblings in Vent and attended the secondary school from 1971 to 1979 in Imst. From 1979 to 1984, Gstrein studied mathematics in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen. He not completed his PhD in 1988 at the University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Roman Liedl and Gerhard Frey.
