"The Old King in His Exile": Vienna's Free Book 2025 Announced

The novel "The Old King in His Exile" by Arno Geiger is this year's Vienna Free Book. 100,000 copies of it will be distributed throughout the city starting November 19. In the book published in 2011, the author from Vorarlberg, who now lives in the federal capital, describes the family's handling of his father August's Alzheimer's disease, beginning in the 1990s.

Vienna Free Book 2025 is called "The Old King in His Exile"

Geiger is one of the country's most important authors with his books like "We Are Doing Well" (2005), "Under the Dragon Wall" (2018), or most recently "The Journey to Laredo" (2024). Like other novels by the writer, "The Old King in His Exile" was a bestseller, which according to information from Echo Verlag - they produce the respective editions for the Free Book initiative - was translated into 30 languages. The initiative "One City. One Book." has existed since 2002.

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