Homecoming
Growing up with his mother in Germany, Peter Debauer knows little about his father, an apparent victim of the Second World War. But when he stumbles upon a few pages from a long-lost novel, Peter embarks on a quest that leads him across Europe to the United States, chasing fragments of a story...
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Growing up with his mother in Germany, Peter Debauer knows little about his father, an apparent victim of the Second World War. But when he stumbles upon a few pages from a long-lost novel, Peter embarks on a quest that leads him across Europe to the United States, chasing fragments of a story within a story and a master of disguises who may or may not exist. Homecoming is a tale of fathers and sons, men and women, war and peace. It reveals the humanity that survives the trauma of war and the ongoing possibility for redemption.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375725579 (0375725571)
ASIN: 375725571
Publish date: January 6th 2009
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Writing,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Books About Books,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
German Literature,
Germany
Feh. This was a BORING book. The author tried to draw parallels with [b:The Odyssey|1381|The Odyssey|Homer|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349112871s/1381.jpg|3356006], which just ended up reminding me how much I hated Odysseus - how much he was a womanizing, cocky, douchebag."[...] I was too much i...
I had high expectations for this book after The Reader. Maybe something was lost in translation, but this was just painful to get through.
I genuinely enjoyed this book so I'm going to grant it 5 stars without thinking the second time. It's a really good story, the main character is easy to understand and the plot is not extremely complicated, but not too simple either. The ending sentence I loved, It's a really hard thing to look for...
Das Leben des Deutschen Peter Debauer ist in diesem Roman wie eine Odyssee angelegt. Die Hauptfigur surft auf dieser Irrfahrt völlig wirr und sinnlos durch sein Leben und das Jahrhundert, auf der Suche nach dem Ende eines Romans, auf dessen Manuskript er zufällig als Kind gestossen ist und hinter st...
This book was generally dissapointing. There were moments when I thought: wow, now this is going somewhere! However, these moments were fleeting and for most of the book I thought: "what is the point of this". I think he could have made so much more with this book. [PS I've been reading very slowly ...
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