Julia Franck

Broschiertes Buch

The Blind Side of the Heart

Beschreibung

Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. It is a great family novel, a powerful portrayal of an era, and the story of a fascinating woman. Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010.

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: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780099524236
• ISBN-10: 0099524236
• Artikelnr.: 28994710