Teresa Präauer

For the hostess, food has always been about growing up. From the pancakes your grandmother made you, dolloped with jam, to the salty glug of your first oyster. Now, poised at the brink of midlife, the hostess prepares for a dinner party in her new apartment. With a hunger for the finer things in life, she folds linen napkins into...

An unveiling of the presence of captivating figures and creatures throughout history. In this gripping philosophical and cultural exploration, Teresa Präauer sets out to investigate figures of transformation, transmission, and translation—across languages, cultures, genres, media, species, and spaces. Hybrids, chimeras, monsters, and liminal creatures of all sorts inhabit these pages, as indeed they do the pages of the cultural archive...

Very funny, very stylish and very moving — ADAM THIRLWELL An irresistible novel - I loved it — CLAIRE POWELL Deliciously unsettling and thoroughly enjoyable — AYŞEGÜL SAVAS An evening of perfect preparation. A night of uninvited chaos. For the hostess, food has always been about growing up. From the pancakes your grandmother made you, dolloped with jam, to the...