Homeland / Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Charlotte Collins.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: London, England : Granta, 2018Description: 190 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781783783526
- 1783783524
- Home land
- PT2671.E43 H66 2018
- PT2671.E43 M2713 2018
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection | Fiction Collection | KEMP | Available | T00809868 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A sharply evocative novel of one man's journey into his family history and the troubled legacy of World War II, from the author of All for Nothing .
"Original German edition first published in 1992."
It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia--where the Nazi legacy lives on in buildings and fortifications--to write about the route for a car rally. It's a plum job, but his interest is piqued by a personal connection. Here, among the refugees fleeing the advancing Russians in 1945, he was born. Homeland is a nuanced work from one of the great modern European storytellers, in which an everyday German comes face to face with his painful family history, and devastating questions about ordinary Germans' complicity in the war.
Translated from the German.