Audrey Magee Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Der Roman thematisiert auf eindrucksvolle Weise den Verlust einer Sprache und die damit verbundene kulturelle Nachhaltigkeit. Durch seine poetische Erzählweise vermittelt er universelle Botschaften über Identität und das Streben nach Bewahrung von Traditionen. Die tiefgründigen Reflexionen und emotionalen Elemente machen das Werk zu einem bedeutenden Kommentar über die Herausforderungen, denen sich Kulturen in der modernen Welt gegenübersehen.

The clarity of Colm Toibin's prose is blended with the emotional truth of Anne Enright in this stand-out new novel of belonging and loss.

Desperate to escape the Eastern front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises 'honeymoon' leave for him and a pension for her should he die on the front. With ten days' leave secured, Peter visits his new wife in Berlin; both are surprised by the attraction that develops between them. When Peter returns to the horror of the front, it is only the dream of Katharina that sustains him as he approaches Stalingrad. Back in Berlin, Katharina, goaded on by her desperate and delusional parents, ruthlessly works her way into the Nazi party hierarchy, wedding herself, her young husband and their unborn child to the regime. But when the tide of war turns and Berlin falls, Peter and Katharina, ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt, find their simple dream of family increasingly hard to hold on to...