Seagull Books, 2026

Laura Freudenthaler’s timely literary novel is rooted in the present-day climate crisis. Arson chronicles the nightmarish scenarios in the daily life of an unnamed narrator as the climate crisis ravages her life, relationships, sleep, and ability to relate to the people around her.

More about Arson at New Books in German and Jung und Jung.

Laura Freudenthaler was born in Salzburg in 1984 and lives in Vienna. Her debut novel Der Schädel von Madeleine was published in 2014. She has received numerous prizes for her work and was awarded the European Union literary prize for her second novel Geistergeschichte (2019). Her work has been translated into multiple languages, including but not limited to Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Polish.

Website: http://laurafreudenthaler.eu/