Blindness of the Heart
by JULIA FRANCK | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0802119670 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0802119670 Global Overview for this book
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Winner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe’s freshest young voices—a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family. In the devastating opening scene, a woman named Helene stands with her seven-year-old son in a provincial German railway station in 1945, amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west. Having survived with him through the horror and deprivation of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns.
Julia Franck's unforgettable English language debut throws new light on life in early-twentieth-century Germany, revealing the breathtaking scope of its citizens' denial—the "blindness of the heart" that survival often demanded.
Winner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe’s freshest young voices—a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family. In the devastating opening scene, a woman named Helene stands with her seven-year-old son in a provincial German railway station in 1945, amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west. Having survived with him through the horror and deprivation of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns.
Julia Franck's unforgettable English language debut throws new light on life in early-twentieth-century Germany, revealing the breathtaking scope of its citizens' denial—the "blindness of the heart" that survival often demanded.
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Azuki
at Little Free Library - El Portal City Hall - 500 NE 87 Street in Miami, Florida USA on Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Azuki at Little Free Library - El Portal City Hall - 500 NE 87 Street in Miami, Florida USA on Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (8/7/2017 UTC) at Little Free Library - El Portal City Hall - 500 NE 87 Street in Miami, Florida USA
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