Olympia - Couverture rigide

Bock, Dennis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0747536805 ISBN 13 : 9780747536802

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Bock Dennis

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Drawing on imaginary outtakes from Riefenstahl's infamousfilm of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Dennis Bock weaves together the lives ofa family living in the shadow of history.

Olympia is the story of post-war German immigrants, as told by theirson Peter, born in the New World and raised in the sixties and seventies.

Though great figures and events of mid-century touch the lives of thisremarkable family, it is the private histories, the grand failings and smalltriumphs of Peter's family that remain etched in the reader's imagination. FromRuby's struggle to rise above her leukemia and her father's love of severeweather and killing tornadoes, to the saint who witnesses a miracle at thebottom of a drowned Spanish village.

Set against the backdrop of some of the most significant Olympic moments ofour times--the Nazis' stylish and sinister glorification of the Berlin Olympicsand the 1972 Munich hostage--taking in which 11 Israelis were murdered--Olympiaoffers a bold and refreshing perspective on the tragic relationship betweenGermans and Jews in this century.

Bock writes with insight and clarity in a breath-taking, beautiful prose thatsignals the debut of a brilliant new talent.

Biographie de l'auteur :

DENNIS BOCK'S first book of stories, Olympia, won the 1998 Canadian Authors Association Jubilee Award, the Danuta Gleed Award for best first collection of stories by a Canadian author and the British Betty Trask Award. His first novel, The Ash Garden, was a #1 national bestseller and was shortlisted for the prestigious 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Kiriyama Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Caribbean and Canada Region). It won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the Drummer General’s Award for Fiction. His most recent book, The Communist’s Daughter, was a national bestseller and garnered much critical acclaim. Dennis Bock lives with his family in Toronto.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0747536805
• ISBN 13: 9780747536802
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224