The Snowman

By Jorg Fauser

“Prose that penetrates the reader’s mind like speed, fast paced, without an ounce of fat.”—Weltwoche

He’s found five pounds of top quality Peruvian cocaine in a suit-case. Pursued by the police and drug traffickers the luckless Blum falls prey to the frenzied paranoia of the cocaine addict and dealer. This is a fast-paced thriller written with acerbic humour, a hardboiled evocation of drug-fuelled existence and a penetrating observation of those at the edge of German society.

Having broken his addiction to on heroin at the age of thirty, Jörg Fauser spent much of the rest of his life dependent on alcohol. He died aged forty-three in 1987, run over by a truck at four am on a German highway.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
• Release date: Feb 17, 2005
• ISBN: 9781913394356

Jorg Fauser

Jörg Fauser was born in Frankfurt in 1944. After abandoning his studies he lived in Istanbul and London before moving back to Germany, where he made his living as a writer of fiction and poetry. He died in Munich in 1987. Raw Material is his masterpiece.

Reviews for The Snowman

[helenell · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Blum is in Malta trying to sell his collection of Danish porn magazines, his visa almost expired, when a series of events finds him in possession of a left-luggage ticket from Munich train station. On his return to Germany, he opens the locker to find 5 pounds of top grade Peruvian cocaine. It appears life is looking up at last, at least until he tries to sell it. Originally published in Germany in 1981, this is another winner from Bitter Lemon Press.