Bøger af Sylvia Petter

A collection of flash fiction which will challenge and delight readers. All over the place in the space of a mind. Short and shorter stories that "are sometimes very funny and sometimes very moving, and often they are both at once, ..." - Robert Olen Butler

Uncle Fritz¿s Cabinet is a novella in flash written during flash nano 2023 - a flash a day during the month of November. It deals with three fascism fans - Engelbert Dollfuß, Maria Montessori and Miles Franklin who meet in an online group located in my Uncle Fritz¿s cabinet

A collection of short stories appended to the doings of an imaginary friend, Ben, the leprechaun.

The Cure is Murder is a novella in flash inspired by a stay at an Austria health spa and recent Austrian politics.Part 1 contains Chapters 1 to 12; Part 2 contains chapters 13 to 24. Wikipedia entries are included in chapters 23 and 24 for reference purposes.

The Cure is Murder is a novella in flash inspired by a stay at an Austria health spa and recent Austrian politics.Part 1 contains Chapters 1 to 12; Part 2 contains chapters 13 to 24. Wikipedia entries are included in chapters 23 and 24 for reference purposes.

GUT, or How Pippa Sandberg Almost Saved the World, is a novella in flash inspired by my career with the International Telecommunication Union, ITU, Geneva.

'Explores truth and memory with a compelling subtlety' - Jason GoodwinThe fictional memoir of Katrina Klain.How true are the family histories that tell us who we are and where we come from? Who knows how much all the beautiful liars have embargoed or embellished the truth?During a long flight from Europe to Sydney to bury her mother, Australian expat Katrina Klain reviews the fading narrative of her family and her long quest to understand her true origins. This has already taken her to Vienna, where she met her Uncle Harald who embezzled the Austrian government out of millions, as well as Carl Sokorny, the godson of one of Hitler's most notorious generals, and then on to Geneva and Madrid. Not only were her family caught up with the Nazis, they also turn out to have been involved with the Stasi in post-war East Germany.It's a lot to come to terms with, but there are more revelations in store. After the funeral, she finds letters that reveal a dramatic twist which means her own identity must take a radical shift. Will these discoveries enable her to complete the puzzle of her family's past?Inspired by her own life story, Sylvia Petter's richly imaginative debut novel, set between the new world and the old, is a powerful tale about making peace with the past and finding closure for the future.