Snowburial

Michael "J. J." Kogler, geboren und aufgewachsen in den Salzburger Alpen, hat seine musikalische Heimat bereits früh als Songwriter der Post-Black-Metal-Band KARG, sowie als Sänger und Texter von HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY gefunden. Zudem ist er seit 2011 Redakteur für das Slam Alternative Music Magazine, wo er seine beiden Leidenschaften, die Musik und das Schreiben, verbindet. Literarisch wurde J. J. vorwiegend von den großen amerikanischen Klassikern der Neuzeit wie Bukowski oder Hemingway beeinflusst. Er hat einen Abschluss im Fachbereich Soziologie und lebt derzeit gleichermaßen in Salzburg wie auch in Wien. Mit dem Roman "Die Asche vergangener Winter" veröffentlicht er im November 2022 sein Debüt in der Edition Outbird.

Tal Linden is a musician in his early thirties who suffers from bipolarism and struggles with drug abuse. For nearly half his life, Tal's been living on the edge, the abyss before his eyes staring right back at him. When his girlfriend Hanna breaks up with him, Tal grows serious doubts whether the life he's led was even worth living anymore. Dedicating what's left of him to finding his own great catharsis, Tal seeks refuge from the ones he loves inside a hut in the mountains, a gloomy and sunlight-deprived place where the snow doesn't melt before the last days of spring. Haunted by nostalgia, Tal more and more becomes one with the darkness that fills every corner of this dismal place which he now calls his home. Despite what seems to be utter hopelessness, Michael J. J. Kogler presents a novel with "Snowburial" a novel about both dark and light. Regardless of all the tragic happenings and love that's been lost somewhere along the way, it also recounts instances of how its protagonist had learned to live and love in the first place.