Homeland - Hardcover

Kempowski, Walter

 
9781783783526: Homeland
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1783783524 ISBN 13: 9781783783526
Verlag: Granta Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Jonathan Fabricus is a journalist living in West Germany at the end of the 1980s. In 1988 - the year before the Berlin wall comes down - he is asked by a car manufacturer to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia to write about the route for a car rally. It's a plum job, but his interest is piqued too by his own connection to those lands. Fleeing the advancing Russians in 1945, his mother died in childbirth on the refugee route trail out of East Prussia and was buried in a village that under Allied victory was given over to what is now communist Poland. On this sometimes darkly comical and often dangerous road trip - where the Nazi legacy lives on in buildings and fortifications and violence is never far from the surface - Jonathan comes face to face with his painful family history, as well as devastating questions about ordinary Germans' complicity and guilt in the war.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Walter Kempowski (1929-2007) was one of Germany's most important post-war writers, known for his acclaimed collection of first-hand accounts of WWII, including Swansong 1945 (Granta, 2014). His critically applauded final novel, All for Nothing (Granta, 2015) was a bestseller in both Germany and the UK.

Charlotte Collins studied English Literature at Cambridge and worked as an actor and radio journalist before becoming a literary translator. In 2017 she was awarded the Goethe-Institut's Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for her translation of Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life.

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Verlag
Granta Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1783783524
ISBN 13 
9781783783526
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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