The Story of My Baldness
by Marek van der Jagt

Translated from the Dutch by Todd Armstrong

• Gemeentebibliotheek Utrecht, The Netherlands
• The Association of Public Libraries, The Hague, The Netherlands
• Openbare Bibliotheek Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  

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Other Press ISBN 1590511220

In The Story Of My Baldness, Viennese philosophy student Marek van der Jagt tells the story of his quest for "l'amour fou". Van der Jagt introduces a host of unforgettable characters and weaves a web of shameful secrets in this novel that uses Vienna the way Kafka used Prague - as the (strangely familiar) landscape where the narrator's obsessions are given free rein.

Marek Van Der Jagt is a Viennese philosopher. His first book, The Story Of My Baldness was awarded the Anton Wachter Prize for a debut novel, until it was revealed that he had already won the prize previously for Blue Mondays, written under the name of the best-selling international author Arnon Grunberg, his bitter public rival.