Publisher's Synopsis
There can be no more promising start to a literary career than Melitta Breznik's debut novel NIGHT DUTY.' - Neue Zuricher Zeitung This first novel by Austrian writer Melitta Breznik has already been published in German to great acclaim. Dealing with such themes as family dysfunction and alcoholism, it recounts the story of a young female pathologist who is re-examining her life and that of her troubled family: her brother, her dead mother, and her trying father who is now dying of alcoholism.'
