Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
A literary masterpiece by one of Germany's most renowned contemporary writers.Rome one January afternoon in 1943. A young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. Innocent and naïve, the war is for her little more than a day-dream, until she realizes that her husband might never return.This is a mesmerizing psychological portrait of the human need to safeguard innocence and integrity at any cost - even at the risk of excluding reality.Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'I was simply enthralled by the structure of this narrative; a single 117-page long sentence with a beautifully clear rhythm. At the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-908670-01-4
- EAN: 9781908670014
- Produktnummer: 14983950
- Verlag: Peirene Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 246 KB
Über den Autor
Friedrich Christian Delius is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary German writers. He was born in 1943 and lives in Berlin and Rom. His first poetry collection appeared in 1965. Since then he has published 14 novels, 5 poetry collections and has recently written the libretto for the opera Prospero by Luca Lombardi. His books have been translated into 17 languages. In May 2011 Friedrich Christian Delius won the most prestigious German literary award, the Georg-Buechner Prize.
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