Next World Novella
Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more interested in the after-life. Or so it seemed. When she dies of a stroke, Hinrich goes through her papers only to discover a totally different perspective on their marriage. Thus commences a dazzling...
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Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more interested in the after-life. Or so it seemed. When she dies of a stroke, Hinrich goes through her papers only to discover a totally different perspective on their marriage. Thus commences a dazzling intellectual game of shifting realities.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780956284037 (0956284035)
ASIN: 0956284035
Publish date: 2011-02-01
Publisher: Peirene
Pages no: 138
Edition language: English
bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, paper-read, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, under-100-ratings, published-2009, spring-2014 Read from May 02 to 18, 2014 Translated from the German by Anthea BellOpening: If only it hadn't been for that smell. As if Doro had forgotten to change the water in the flow...
Next World Novella is the first book in the Peirene series on Male Dilemmas: The Quest for Intimacy (I have previously reviewed all of the novellas in the Female Voices series; Beside the Sea, Stone in a Landslide and Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman). Hinrich Schepp is an ageing academic in ...
This is a short book translated from the German. The author, Matthias Politycki, is one of the most successful literary German authors, but he's not well known over here in Canada. I think I first read of this book on the excellent book blog Kimbofo.typepad.com. Reading books in translation from o...
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