Midsummer Night
If this, Uwe Timm's enchanting novel, were a cautionary tale, the tag line would go something like this: Should you plan to be in Berlin on Midsummer Night, the time of the summer solstice - Watch Out! The narrator of Timm's story is a writer who simply can't get started on his next book. So he accepts a commission to write an article about potatoes. He has some interest in the subject because of an uncle who could, remarkably, from taste alone, differentiate one species of potato from another. Since one of the authorities on the subject worked in East Berlin, our hero takes off to do some research. Rushing around the newly united city, he be…
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Weitere Autoren: Timm, Uwe / Tegel, Peter (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1420-9
- EAN: 9780811214209
- Produktnummer: 19444452
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 277 S.
- Masse: H17.6 cm x B12.5 cm x D1.9 cm 236 g
- Gewicht: 236
Über den Autor
Peter Tegel fled Sudetenland, a region of the former Czechoslovakia, at the age of six with his Czech-German family. He escaped to Britain to avoid the Nazis and then graduated from Balliol College, Oxford. He has produced translations of German, French and Russian literature. Currently, Tegel is co-chair of the Pushkin Club, a nonpolitical organization in London that is dedicated to Russian artistic and literary culture.
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