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Invitation to the Bold of Heart
Dorothee Elmiger
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Description for Invitation to the Bold of Heart
Hardback. A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi are the two sisters who are the last remaining youth of this vanishing town. Their inheritance is nothing but an abandoned swathe of land ruled by devastation. Translator(s): Derbyshire, Katy. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312.
A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the two sisters who are the heroines of "Invitation to the Bold of Heart", the debut novel by Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger, are the last remaining youth of this vanishing town. Their inheritance is nothing but an abandoned swathe of land ruled by devastation. But the sisters won't accept this state of affairs - they set out on an expedition, determined to piece together the fragments of their family history. Only by learning their own story can ... Read more
A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the two sisters who are the heroines of "Invitation to the Bold of Heart", the debut novel by Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger, are the last remaining youth of this vanishing town. Their inheritance is nothing but an abandoned swathe of land ruled by devastation. But the sisters won't accept this state of affairs - they set out on an expedition, determined to piece together the fragments of their family history. Only by learning their own story can ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Condition
New
Series
SB - The Swiss List
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857420190
SKU
9780857420190
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About Dorothee Elmiger
Dorothee Elmiger is a Berlin-based Swiss writer. Katy Derbyshire is a Berlin-based translator from London. She recently translated Inka Parei's The Shadow-Boxing Woman, also published by Seagull Books.
Reviews for Invitation to the Bold of Heart
"The reader, too, gets to be at the mercy of this text - I myself turned into an echo chamber when I read it." (Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, author of My Secret is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages)"