Vienna - Couverture souple

Menasse, Eva

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753821710 ISBN 13 : 9780753821718

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2007

Synopsis

From the very beginning - the birth of the narrator's father in the middle of a bridge party - the reader is plunged headlong into the world of Vienna, a novel crowded with voices, characters, tragedy and joy. The disintegration of history and indentity in the twentieth century is seen through the adventures of one family - half-Jewish Viennese, split apart by the Nazi invasion and sent out into the world. Dispensing with linear narrative, the story loops forwards and back to follow each member on their winding course. Their experiences encompass fraudsters, footballers, fools and fur coats as the narrative moves from Austria to London, from Canada to the battlefields of Burma. This is a landmark European novel of impressive reach and power whose readership will spread as widely as the family whose story it tells. It introduces in Eva Menasse an intimate chronicle of human experience and an unashamedly gleeful storyteller. Her cast of entrancing characters and unexpected events shows us imperceptibly the formation and disintegration of family history and identity.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Born 1970, Eva Menasse is an arts journalist on the Frankfurter Allgemeine. This is her first novel.

Anthea Bell

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0753821710
• ISBN 13: 9780753821718
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible