Pigeons on the grass
Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
Bok Engelsk 2020 · Roman
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| Utgitt | New York : A New Directions Paperbook Original , 2020
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| Omfang | xix, 216 sider
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| Opplysninger | Munich 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the station and hires a porter; Emilia sells the last of her jewelry; Philipp gives himself up to despair; with their interracial love affair, Carla Behrend and Washington Price scandalize their neighbors, who still expect gifts of chocolate and coffee; a boy hustles to sell a stray dog; Mr. Edwin, a visiting poet, prepares for a reading; Frau Behrend disowns her daughter; Alexander stars as the Archduke in a new German Super-production; and Susanne seeks out a night to remember.
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| ISBN | 978-0-8112-2918-0(heftet) : Nkr 146.00
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