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Adaptations Come Sweet Death (2000) | 4.1/5 Goodreads Country Austria Publication date 31 March 1998 Originally published 31 March 1998 Genre Novel OCLC 248926629 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Similar The Bone Man, Brenner and God, The Weather Fifteen Y, Death and the Penguin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Komm, süßer Tod (Come, Sweet Death) is a 1998 novel by Austrian author Wolf Haas. It is named after a musical piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was picturised in 2000 as Komm, süßer Tod.
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Plot summary
Disillusioned paramedic and ex-cop Simon Brenner finds himself trapped between the front lines of two competing Emergency Medical Services in Vienna's relentless summer heat. Things turn really hot when Brenner starts looking into the unusually high death rate of elderly patients.
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Other uses
Many believe that the song Komm Süsser Tod sung in The End of Evangelion was inspired by this novel, but in fact End of Evangelion came out one year before this novel.
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Komm, süßer Tod (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA