Among the BiereschYoung Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empirea surreal postwar Austria. His uncle has died, and according to the tradition required by his peoplethe BiereschHans must assume his uncle's place for one year. In a series of interactions with the village's tragicomic characters and their contradictory stories and scriptures, the reluctant Hans must face a world both familiar and alien. Among the Bieresch is Hans'