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West
Julia Franck
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Description for West
Paperback. Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind the prying eyes of the Stasi. But the West is not all she hoped for. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 248.
Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind the prying eyes of the Stasi.
But the West is not all she hoped for. Nelly and her children are held in Marienfelde, a refugee processing centre and no-man’s-land between East and West. There she meets Krystyna, a Polish woman who hopes that medical treatment in the West will save her dying brother; Hans, a troubled actor released from prison in the East; and John, a CIA man monitoring the refugees for possible Stasi spies. All lives cross here, in this gateway to a new life.
Now an award-winning film
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099554325
SKU
V9780099554325
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-22
About Julia Franck
Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. Her novel The Blind Side of the Heart won the German Book Prize and sold over a million copies in Germany alone. It was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize, and was named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and US magazine Kirkus Reviews. West is her third novel to be translated into English.
Reviews for West
Franck’s spare prose evokes an atmosphere of claustrophobic menace. Her unflinching gaze at lives in limbo…is a compelling and resonant read
Independent
This is…a powerful novel by an impressive prose stylist and one that throws a spotlight, arrestingly, on a gloomy corner of history
Stephanie Cross
Daily Mail
Franck’s bleak novel excels in the portrayal of the camp’s oppressive no-man’s-land atmosphere
Rebecca K. Morrison
The Times Literary Supplement
Seamlessly translated by Anthea Bell
Independent
A powerful and often moving novel, bleak and atmospheric
Mandy Jenkinson
Nudge
Independent
This is…a powerful novel by an impressive prose stylist and one that throws a spotlight, arrestingly, on a gloomy corner of history
Stephanie Cross
Daily Mail
Franck’s bleak novel excels in the portrayal of the camp’s oppressive no-man’s-land atmosphere
Rebecca K. Morrison
The Times Literary Supplement
Seamlessly translated by Anthea Bell
Independent
A powerful and often moving novel, bleak and atmospheric
Mandy Jenkinson
Nudge