After Me

The powerful and disturbing stories of legendary postwar Austrian-Jewish writer Ilse Aichinger

When someone pushes the bed out of the hall, when you see that the sky is turning green, and if you want to spare the vicar a funeral sermon, then it is time for you to get up, quietly, as children get up when the morning light starts to glint through the shutters, secretly, so the nurse doesn’t see—and quick!

Like the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo and Bruno Schulz, Aichinger’s chilling and surrea...