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Christoph Ransmeier (b. 1954) is a world-renowned Austrian writer, one of the most prominent representatives of postmodernism. His novel The Last World (1988), which has been translated into 32 languages, first brought him universal recognition. Ransmire's works regularly win prestigious literary prizes (more than two dozen of them already), including the novel Kitahara's Disease (1995), the Ukrainian translation of which is in your hands today, which was once awarded the European Aristeion Prize.

"Kitahara Disease" is chronologically the third novel in Christoph Ransmeier's oeuvre. The idea for this text arose in the 1980s, but it was first published in 1995, because the author considers the greatest luxury in his life to be the opportunity to work on the text without haste, searching for answers to important questions while travelling around the world. Winner of the prestigious European Aristeion Prize in 1996 and now translated into 16 languages, Kitahara's Disease, according to the Literary Review, "unlike many other postmodern mosaics, impresses with its seriousness and great passion."