German Fantasia
"Dark, sober and strong" Le Monde
(Sprache: Englisch)
A deserting soldier treks through the torn-up countryside and abandoned villages, trying to distance himself from the atrocities of war,
An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger...
An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger...
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A deserting soldier treks through the torn-up countryside and abandoned villages, trying to distance himself from the atrocities of war,An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger who whispered another man's name,
A young woman takes up a job in a care home, spending monotonous days scruPping floors and yearning to dance at the local nightclub,
The artist Franz Marc lives on in an imagined life as a patient at an asylum, before falling victim to Hitler's policy of Gnadentod,
Finally, a young Jewish girl, the life she once knew destroyed, holds her memories close as she finds refuge in wreckage of her homeland,
And throughout there is the shadowy presence of Viktor - one man or many? A looming figure in Germany's own reckoning with its past,
Through these five interconnected stories, Philippe Claudel reflects on Germany's complex history and the experiences of its people, dismantling the idea of "a nation" or "a people" and exploring the malleability of memory,
Autoren-Porträt von Philippe Claudel
Philippe Claudel is a university lecturer, novelist, film director and scriptwriter. He has written 14 novels that have been translated into various languages. He was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe in 1962 where he still lives. In 2009 his film I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime), which draws upon Claudel's eleven years teaching in prisons, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language film. Among his novels, Grey Souls won the Prix Renaudot in France, the American Gumshoe Award and the Swedish Martin Beck award. Brodeck's Report won the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philippe Claudel
- 2023, 154 Seiten, Maße: 12,6 x 19,4 cm, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Julian Evans
- Verlag: Quercus Publishing Plc
- ISBN-10: 1529417880
- ISBN-13: 9781529417883
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.01.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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