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The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country
Uwe Tellkamp
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Description for The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country
Paperback. Num Pages: 1024 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 47. Weight in Grams: 696.
In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989. Uwe ... Read more
In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989. Uwe ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
695g
Number of Pages
1024
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141979250
SKU
V9780141979250
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Ref
99-99
About Uwe Tellkamp
Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political unreliability'. He was arrested in 1989 but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden and New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg ... Read more
Reviews for The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country
Chosen by Boyd Tonkin
Independent - Best Fiction in Translation
There's no way to recommend The Tower enough
The Gryphon
So blunt, so radical, so void of illusion - life in the GDR has never before been portrayed in such a meticulous way . . . The struggle for materials, the camp mentality, and the ubiquitous ... Read more
Independent - Best Fiction in Translation
There's no way to recommend The Tower enough
The Gryphon
So blunt, so radical, so void of illusion - life in the GDR has never before been portrayed in such a meticulous way . . . The struggle for materials, the camp mentality, and the ubiquitous ... Read more