Winters Garten (translates literally to Winter's Garden) is a novel by Valerie Fritsch. As far as I know, it has not been translated into English.

Plot:
Anton Winter spent a lot of his childhood at his grandparents' house and garden. Now he's an ornithologist in his fourties and looks at the ruins of a city in a world devastated by war. He is a loner, but when he happens to meet Friederike, he falls in love. He starts working with her at a birthing clinic and they get closer. But with the end of the world fast approaching, they have very little future, only the hopes that fill their present.

Winters Garten is Literature-with-a-capital-L and while I loved to get a speculative fiction novel from Austria, I couldn't really get into that literary style that - to me - felt like it was trying too hard.

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