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A Sense of the Beginning
Norbert Gstrein
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Description for A Sense of the Beginning
Paperback. A poignant novel of political-religious awakening by one of Germany's literary stars Translator(s): Evans, Julian. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420.
A poignant novel of political-religious awakening by one of Germany's literary stars An anonymous phone call, an unattended bag discovered in the station of a small Austrian town, a piece of paper saying, Repent! and Next time it will be for real! A C.C.T.V. image of a young man. What was it that made the teacher think it was his old student, Daniel? Ten years earlier Daniel had spent time with the teacher in his remote house by the river. The town had talked. Anton had recently returned from two years teaching in Istanbul - he was unsettled, subversive, solitary. Daniel was on the brink of adulthood - idealistic, unrequitedly in love with Judith, vulnerable to influence. Those summer weeks by the river were an idyll. But did they also sow the seeds of Daniel's later obsessiveness, his biblical attitudes, his political dogmatism? As the bomb threat excites the community with all the tension of a witch hunt, and Anton himself becomes a focus for suspicion and gossip, he anatomises his memories of the preceding decade. What went wrong for Daniel, and could he have stopped it?
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857053589
SKU
V9780857053589
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About Norbert Gstrein
Norbert Gstrein was born in 1961 in the Austrian Tyrol, and studied mathematics at Innsbruck and Stanford, California. He is the author of The English Years, which won widespread critical acclaim in Germany and was awarded the coveted Alfred Doeblin Prize.
Reviews for A Sense of the Beginning
Gstrein unfolds a magnificently achieved game of memory, guilt and multiple layers of time
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Once again we are dazzled by an author who leads us through complex uncertainties to what is simple and true
Munchner Merkur
Probably Gstrein's best novel yet . . . melodic, rhythmic, elegant
Kulturspiegel
A magnificent tale, about all that makes up life
Wiener Zeitung
A pleasing blend of Gstrein's classic themes of small town and the universal, homeland and exile, trauma and liberation, innocence and hubris
Neue Zurcher Zeitung
Gstrein has succeeded in writing a great novel about spiritual seduction, ideological vulnerability and the fragility of memory
Die Tageszeitung
Gstrein unfolds a magnificently achieved game of memory, guilt and multiple layers of time
Ernst Osterkamp
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Once again we are dazzled by an author who leads us through complex uncertainties to what is simple and true
Simone Dattenberger
Munchner Merkur
Probably Gstrein's best novel yet . . . melodic, rhythmic, elegant
Christoph Schroeder
Kulturspiegel
A pleasing blend of Gstrein's classic themes of small town and the universal, homeland and exile, trauma and liberation, innocence and hubris
Andreas Brietenstein
Neue Zurcher Zeitung
A magnificent tale, about all that makes up life
Andreas Wirthensohn
Wiener Zeitung
Gstrein has succeeded in writing a great novel about spiritual seduction, ideological vulnerability and the fragility of memory
Christoph Schroeder
Die Tageszeitung
An intelligent and subtle novel . . . incisive and illuminating
Alastair Mabbott
Herald (Scotland)
The novel's very subject is the instability of stories, the unreliability of memory and the way we look for truths where perhaps there are none.
Claire Allfree
Daily Mail
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Once again we are dazzled by an author who leads us through complex uncertainties to what is simple and true
Munchner Merkur
Probably Gstrein's best novel yet . . . melodic, rhythmic, elegant
Kulturspiegel
A magnificent tale, about all that makes up life
Wiener Zeitung
A pleasing blend of Gstrein's classic themes of small town and the universal, homeland and exile, trauma and liberation, innocence and hubris
Neue Zurcher Zeitung
Gstrein has succeeded in writing a great novel about spiritual seduction, ideological vulnerability and the fragility of memory
Die Tageszeitung
Gstrein unfolds a magnificently achieved game of memory, guilt and multiple layers of time
Ernst Osterkamp
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Once again we are dazzled by an author who leads us through complex uncertainties to what is simple and true
Simone Dattenberger
Munchner Merkur
Probably Gstrein's best novel yet . . . melodic, rhythmic, elegant
Christoph Schroeder
Kulturspiegel
A pleasing blend of Gstrein's classic themes of small town and the universal, homeland and exile, trauma and liberation, innocence and hubris
Andreas Brietenstein
Neue Zurcher Zeitung
A magnificent tale, about all that makes up life
Andreas Wirthensohn
Wiener Zeitung
Gstrein has succeeded in writing a great novel about spiritual seduction, ideological vulnerability and the fragility of memory
Christoph Schroeder
Die Tageszeitung
An intelligent and subtle novel . . . incisive and illuminating
Alastair Mabbott
Herald (Scotland)
The novel's very subject is the instability of stories, the unreliability of memory and the way we look for truths where perhaps there are none.
Claire Allfree
Daily Mail