TAKHINI BOOKS
Independent Literary Publishing
Books by Anton Baer
Just when you think the next American president cannot be as bad as the last...Just when you think the schmucks and schmoozers of Hollywood have sunk as low as stink can go...Just when you think the cultural self-massacre of the West could not possibly get any more ego-driven...– ALONG COME A PAIR OF DIRTY ROTTEN savvy schmucks and schmoozers born to be scorned who have figured out a way to get rich and famous off it all, and you delight once again in the sheer indomitability of the hustler.6x9, 395 pp
Red Sun Falling
A mix of memoir and fiction set in Guelph, Ontario.
6x9, 237 pp
Elm Street, Yukon
Coming soon
A memoir from Whitehorse in the 1960s.
6x9, 182 pp
Loser Take Nothing
Coming soon
An ugly Australian ex-soldier in Israel falls in love by mistake.
6x9, 253 pp
The Long Goodbye
Coming soon
An Australian painter in London
walks out one evening into Bristol Street.
Slovakia was home for many years, and I lost touch with Canadian literary circles.An assistant to a literary agent in Toronto told me some years ago that if I did publish my satire TRASHLAND in Canada my 'career' would be over before it started.RED SUN FALLING combines memoir and fiction in Guelph, Ontario, before and after six years of Europe.Curiously, in Guelph I ran into a young woman who was the Doppelgaenger of a main character in my Yukon novels – the daughter of an old German soldier. The human body experiences some odd shocks, and that was among the strangest.On arriving in London a literary agent, Anna Webber, and her assistant, Seren Adams, told me that WAITING FOR HITLER ON THE ELEVEN O'CLOCK NEWS had 'immense potential' but that I ought to split it into two books. The book is now three volumes.The trilogy starts with THE HUNTED; a few years after the war, with a scarred and hostile German ex-soldier who walks over the White Pass railbed into Whitehorse, where his young family soon joins him from Montreal. Other Europeans arrive in the Yukon; one, a Polish Jew, tourist, quickly vanishes. The son of the old soldier, shocked by what looks like the murder by his father of a witness to what must have been the murder of the Pole, leaves home for Germany. In the second book, STREETCAR TO THE EDGE OF SUMMER, he returns six years later from Poland. The final book is IN THE FOREST, and it is the story of the final hunt for the killer.The writers who meant the most to me were the young Hemingway and Heinrich Boell, the German Catholic. Then came other European and Russian writers, like Bulgakov and Paustovsky, Isaac Babel, Joseph Roth, and Kurt Tucholsky, the satirist and master of the feuilleton.