Julia Franck

Broschiertes Buch

West

Beschreibung

Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind the prying eyes of the Stasi. But the West is not all she hoped for.

Autor

Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. Her novel The Blind Side of the Heart won the German Book Prize and sold over a million copies in Germany alone. It was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize, and was named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and US magazine Kirkus Reviews. West is her third novel to be translated into English.

© Mathias Bothor / photoselection

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Originaltitel: Westen
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 166402, 653211
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780099554325
• ISBN-10: 0099554321
• Artikelnr.: 42196794

Rezensionen

Franck's spare prose evokes an atmosphere of claustrophobic menace. Her unflinching gaze at lives in limbo...is a compelling and resonant read Independent