In Times of Fading Light (Lannan Translation Selection (Graywolf Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Ruge, Eugen

 
9781555976439: In Times of Fading Light (Lannan Translation Selection (Graywolf Hardcover))
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1555976433 ISBN 13: 9781555976439
Verlag: GRAY WOLF PR, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

An enthrallingly expansive family saga set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, from a major new international voice

* Over 450,000 copies sold in Germany alone * Rights sold in 20 countries * Winner of the German Book Prize * A PW "First Fiction" pick *

In Times of Fading Light begins in September 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s.
The novel then takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family's history: from Alexander's grandparents' return to the GDR to build the socialist state, to his father's decade spent in a gulag for criticizing the Soviet regime, to his son's desire to leave the political struggles of the twentieth century in the past.
With wisdom, humor, and great empathy, Eugen Ruge draws on his own family history as he masterfully brings to life the tragic intertwining of politics, love, and family under the East German regime.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eugen Ruge won the 2011 German Book Prize for In Times of Fading Light, his debut novel, which became a bestseller in Germany and has been translated into twenty languages. Anthea Bell is a prizewinning translator.

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Verlag
GRAY WOLF PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1555976433
ISBN 13 
9781555976439
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
308
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