Die Infantin trägt den Scheitel links

Another Austrian tale of growing up on a Bauernhof, but quite a different one. Provocative, magical, grotesque, nightmarish, full of trauma, youth rebellion, set in a lyrical style that's playful and wicked, full of fun little references, but often borderline exhausting. There's an episodic nature to the chapters, yet occasionally even those fall apart. I would have wished for a more narrative strand throughout it all. One that helps with the question, of what we're supposed to take from all the shocking elements of the story.