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The Last Country: The German List

Autor Svenja Leiber Traducere de Nika Knight
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mai 2022
Now in paperback, the epic tale of a violinist who must navigate the fractious world of early twentieth-century Germany.

Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911, and listens.” Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk, son of the wainwright, child of a sleepy village in Germany’s north, where life is both simple and harsh.

Ruven, though, is neither. He has the ability to see sounds, leading him to discover an uncanny gift for the violin. When he meets a talented teacher in the Jewish quarter, Ruven falls under the spell of a prodigious future. But as the twentieth century looms, Ruven’s pursuit of his craft takes a turn. In The Last Country, Svenja Leiber spins a tale that moves from the mansions of a disappearing aristocracy to a communist rebellion, from a joyous village wedding to a Nazi official’s threats, from the First World War to the Second. As the world Ruven knows disappears, the gifted musician must grapple with an important question: to what end has he devoted himself to his art?

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781803090016
ISBN-10: 1803090014
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Seagull Books
Colecția Seagull Books
Seria The German List


Notă biografică

Svenja Leiber is an award-winning German writer. She is the author of a collection of short stories, Hunting Hours, and the novel Schipino. She lives with her husband and two children in Berlin. Nika Knight is a translator and writer living in southern Maine.

Recenzii

‘The literal and titular ‘Last Country’ is Germany which Leiber describes with a few literary brushstrokes and casts a panoramic view into its hellish years.”

The Last Country is an exciting book that could be called a Bildungsroman, a novel of the artist or a panorama of a century—all of that. But above all, it is a book about what it means to see how their own desires cannot be fulfilled.”

“Leiber has an eye for people who cannot find a place in life or make a living and hardly have a voice. Leiber gives them voice in her books.”

“A socially clairvoyant novel.”