In Times of Fading Light
Автор:
Ruge EugenЖанр:
Историческая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-05Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
81
An enthrallingly expansive family saga set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, from a major new international voice Over 450,000 copies sold in Germany alone • Rights sold in 20 countries • Winner of the German Book Prize • A PW “First Fiction” pick In Times of Fading Light begins in September 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel then takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family’s history: from Alexander’s grandparents’ return to the GDR to build the socialist state, to his father’s decade spent in a gulag for criticizing the Soviet regime, to his...
