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Florina Badel's novel Nebelflüchtige (The Fugitive Fog) is one of the most popular debut novels of recent years: Aita left her hometown in the Lower Engadine after graduating from high school, and began a new life in Vienna, “the capital of the Inn,” as Johannes calls it. The Inn River is the wider river between the two Passau rivers, where it meets the Danube River. Aita only returned to her village after her mother's sudden death, but it was no longer her childhood home. Older Engadine houses are sold to the highest bidder. The luxury real estate market is booming, and Aita's siblings also want to capitalize on it. Aita can only watch sadly as her childhood friend Louis, who has taken over the running of the village shop, searches increasingly desperately for strategies to resist the commercialization of nature and local traditions. Nebelflüchtige is a multifaceted, poetic, and engaging novel about the conflict of contemporary worlds.