Parole Text:Book | The Hare in the Moon

Set against the backdrop of Japanese society, Flašar tells the story of a writer suffering from writer's block who falls in love with a vixen, of married couples who become voyeurs out of boredom, of a woman who is first shocked by the tsunami through the media, of two friends in an ethical dispute, and of a reader whose wife mysteriously disappears. Like her novels, these stories revolve around loneliness and unfulfilled longings, but at the same time open up to a playful, surreal, and fantastical dimension.


Milena Michiko Flašar, born in St. Pölten in 1980, studied German and Romance languages and literature in Vienna and Berlin. The daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father, she has published award-winning novels such as "I Called Him Tie," "Mr. Kato Plays Family," and "Above Earth, Below Sky." Her works have been translated into numerous languages; most recently, she received the Protestant Literature Prize, the Austrian Book Prize France, and, in 2025, the Literature Prize of the A and A Cultural Foundation. She lives with her family in Vienna.