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Tellkamp Uwe
The Tower Tales From A Lost Country
The Tower Tales From A Lost Country
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Description: 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 Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political sabotage'. 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 Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower.
Title: The Tower Tales From A Lost Country
Author(s): Tellkamp Uwe
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141979250
Pages: 1024 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/27/2016
Category: Historical Fiction
Description: 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 Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political sabotage'. 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 Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower.
Title: The Tower Tales From A Lost Country
Author(s): Tellkamp Uwe
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141979250
Pages: 1024 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/27/2016
Category: Historical Fiction