Sachs Adam Ehrlich
Sachs Adam Ehrlich - Gretel And The Great War - Paperback
Sachs Adam Ehrlich - Gretel And The Great War - Paperback
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Description: One of Lit Hub's most anticipated books of 2024 | One of Bloomberg's nine best books of the summer" Inventive Whimsical Fusing period atmosphere with fairy tale Ehrlich Sachs hints at modern themes while summoning an unexpected imaginary place." The New Yorker" Sachs draws from the madcap darkly comic tradition of postmodern European fiction to reimagine the continent's catastrophic destiny Like Thomas Bernhard before him Sachs is a very funny writer unafraid of italics and exclamation marks which he marshals against the absurdity of the world." Dustin Illingworth The New York Times Book Review" Adam Ehrlich Sachs continues to prove he is one of our most daring and original writers." Camille Bordas author of How to Behave in a Crowd A lean seductive and dazzlingly inventive novel that shows us the dark side of early twentieth - century Vienna. Vienna 1919. A once - mighty empire has finally come crashing down and a mysterious young woman unable to speak has turned up on the streets. A doctor appeals to the public for information about her past and receives a single response from a sanatorium patient who claims to be her father. The man reveals only her name: Gretel. But he encloses a bedtime story he asks the doctor to read aloud to her about an Architect whose radically modern creation has caused a great scandal. The next day a second story arrives about a Ballet Master who develops a new position of the feet. Twenty - four more stories follow in alphabetical order about an Immunologist and a Jeweler a Revolutionary and a Satirist a Waif and an X - ray Technician and a Zionist. Crossing paths and purposes their stories interweave until a single picture emerges that of a decadent death - obsessed oversexed empire buzzing with the ideas of Freud and Karl Kraus. There are artists who ape the innocence of children and scientists who insist that children are anything but innocent And then there's Gretel's own mother who will do whatever it takes to sing onstage at the City Theater. Is it any wonder that this world soon to vanish anyway in a war to end all wars was one from which Gretel's father wished to shelter her?
Title: Gretel And The Great War
Author(s): Sachs Adam Ehrlich
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374614249
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 6/11/2024
Category: Fiction: Special Features
Description: One of Lit Hub's most anticipated books of 2024 | One of Bloomberg's nine best books of the summer" Inventive Whimsical Fusing period atmosphere with fairy tale Ehrlich Sachs hints at modern themes while summoning an unexpected imaginary place." The New Yorker" Sachs draws from the madcap darkly comic tradition of postmodern European fiction to reimagine the continent's catastrophic destiny Like Thomas Bernhard before him Sachs is a very funny writer unafraid of italics and exclamation marks which he marshals against the absurdity of the world." Dustin Illingworth The New York Times Book Review" Adam Ehrlich Sachs continues to prove he is one of our most daring and original writers." Camille Bordas author of How to Behave in a Crowd A lean seductive and dazzlingly inventive novel that shows us the dark side of early twentieth - century Vienna. Vienna 1919. A once - mighty empire has finally come crashing down and a mysterious young woman unable to speak has turned up on the streets. A doctor appeals to the public for information about her past and receives a single response from a sanatorium patient who claims to be her father. The man reveals only her name: Gretel. But he encloses a bedtime story he asks the doctor to read aloud to her about an Architect whose radically modern creation has caused a great scandal. The next day a second story arrives about a Ballet Master who develops a new position of the feet. Twenty - four more stories follow in alphabetical order about an Immunologist and a Jeweler a Revolutionary and a Satirist a Waif and an X - ray Technician and a Zionist. Crossing paths and purposes their stories interweave until a single picture emerges that of a decadent death - obsessed oversexed empire buzzing with the ideas of Freud and Karl Kraus. There are artists who ape the innocence of children and scientists who insist that children are anything but innocent And then there's Gretel's own mother who will do whatever it takes to sing onstage at the City Theater. Is it any wonder that this world soon to vanish anyway in a war to end all wars was one from which Gretel's father wished to shelter her?
Title: Gretel And The Great War
Author(s): Sachs Adam Ehrlich
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374614249
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 6/11/2024
Category: Fiction: Special Features
