Milena Michiko Flašar was born in 1980, the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. She lives in Vienna. I Called Him Necktie won the 2012 Austrian Alpha Literature Prize.
“I could not put down this enchanting novel; its characters pulsate off the page, fraught with the entanglements of living. There is so much laughter, wit, pain, joy, humiliation, celebration, longing, tears, determination, aching, beauty. You read books everyday and then you come across that one that just grips you and haunts you and stays with you. That book is called Adua.”
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Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, author of The House of Stone and Shadows
Milena Michiko Flašar
