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The Bridge Over the River de Johannes Gramich

The Bridge Over the River

Autor Johannes Gramich
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2010
This is a haunting novel about growing up in a world unhinged by war. It is also about longing, loss, and the search for home and is for anyone with an interest in 20th-century history who would like to find out what it might have been like to be on the other side during one of its major conflicts.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781906998196
ISBN-10: 1906998191
Pagini: 270
Dimensiuni: 132 x 32 x 199 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Parthian Books
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Johannes Gramich was born in Munich in 1962 and moved to Wales in 1987. The Bridge Over the River is the first English translation of his prize-winning German novel Die Brücke uber den Fluss.

Recenzii

Gramich's meticulous prose captures images and experiences in a detail that gives the early part of the novel an almost dream-like quality. The reader watches on, as each finely-wrought character seeks to make sense of a seemingly unreal reality. Time is marked by the steady passage of the seasons. Constancy and permanence are sought in the few things that remain the same and in faith in a better future. Carefully avoiding melodrama and sentimentality, Gramich evokes personal and collective tragedies in a slow-paced, understated narrative that has a powerful subliminal effect. At a time when many of us in the West like to perceive ourselves as masters of our own destiny (a belief that begins to smack of naivety or arrogance in the current global climate), it is humbling to view the world through the eyes of Gramich's main character, Lynette, whose experiences lead her to the conclusion that she 'was pushed about by something people called fate. All humans were ruled by it but did not admit it and pretended that they were able to choose which path to follow.' The Bridge Over the River is a beautiful, poignant book filled with quiet wisdom and perceptiveness. I was sorry to reach the last page. Suzy Ceulan Hughes Reviews also appeared in the Literary Times Supplement, The Western Mail, Cambria-Magazin and Planet The novel The Bridge over the River is very sensitively written and the narrative is compelling. The reversal of stereotypes in the displacement of the German family and Lynette's chronicling makes it ring like a mirror image of Anne Frank. Lynette's innocence of political pressures comes through strongly. The family's eventual sufferings are somehow signalled in the forebodings in the early passages, but they are still shocking when they occur. The book would make a good basis for a film script in the right hands. A reader's response