In Foreign Cities deals with an American woman who, after fifteen years of marriage to an Austrian businessman, begins an affair with a young American singer, leaves her husband and two children, and returns to her homeland in search of her lost iden...
Devorah, an Austrian Jew, travels to Jerusalem in search of her family history, and she soon becomes romantically involved with a young Palestinian whom she suspects may be using her for political reasons....
"One of the most important novels of contemporary Austrian literature." -- Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Max Berman, a successful but rootless New York restoration architect, socialite, and ladies' man, remembers his childhood home in the small Austri...