Raymond Federman

Return to Manure

Buch

In 1942, after hiding to escape the Nazis, our narrator (named, simply, Federman) finds his way to Vichy France. Unwanted by his relatives, he is forced to spend the remainder of the war as an unpaid laborer. For three wordless years on the farm, this thirteen-year-old is assailed by suffering, death, sex, and the back-breaking labor of shoveling manure. Sixty years later, in the United States, Federman--the author? the narrator? both?--wrestles with nostalgia and bitterness. He finally returns to the farm with his wife, but once the journey is complete he no longer knows why he has made it, nor what he expected to find. Through the merger of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-57366-133-1
EAN: 9781573661331
Produktnummer: 2487242
Verlag: F2c
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 204 S.
Masse: H21.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.7 cm 344 g
Gewicht: 344

Über den Autor

Raymond Federman was born in 1928 in France. His novels have been translated into fourteen languages and include Smiles on Washington Square, winner of the American Book Award. He lives in San Diego.