The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country - Couverture rigide

Tellkamp, Uwe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241004578 ISBN 13 : 9780241004579

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2014

Synopsis

In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989.

Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political sabotage'. He was arrested in 1989, but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden and New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political unreliability'. He was arrested in 1989 but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden and New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'A lush tapestry of characters, composed of a thousand scenes and situations, The Tower brings a German ghost to life . . . [it] stands as a monument against forgetting'
Le Monde

'Memories and impressions grow wild across the lattice of the plot, bringing the symphonic book to - but never over - the brink of cacophony'
Times Literary Supplement

'Tellkamp has written an orchestral work with encyclopaedic skill, sensitivity and linguistic creativity that are incomparable'
La Stampa

'So blunt, so radical, so void of illusion - life in the GDR has never before been portrayed in such a meticulous way . . . The struggle for materials, the camp mentality, and the ubiquitous mistrust: the GDR rises again in all of its now-almost-forgotten guises'
Die Zeit

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

'What do brothers and sisters know of each other? What do husbands and wives know of each other?'

As East Germany collapses, a family finds itself falling apart. Ann and Richard Hoffman are no longer sheltered from reality in Dresden's middle class Tower district. Their son Christian, a conscript in the National People's Army, discovers that one misstep prompts unalterable consequences. His uncle Meno, a member of the intellectual elite, must learn the meaning of justice in a world where freedom of thought has been denied for so long.

Through these entangled, everyday lives, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully tells the story of the end of a world, as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241004578
• ISBN 13: 9780241004579
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1024
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible