Library for the War-Wounded

The second volume in Monika Helfer's internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on the history of her own family. 'We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa. That's what he wanted. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the modern age. Though he seemed to come from nowhere.' Josef was an illegitimate child, a charity case from Salzburg, schooled by a benefactor. He was drafted to fight in the Second World War while still at school and sent to Russia, returning with only one leg. He married his nurse, and brought his family to the high, idyllic slopes of the Austrian Alps, where he took a position as manager of a home for injured soldiers, a strangely suspended, deeply isolated place with a remarkable library. He was a man of many mysteries. To his daughter, Monika, none was greater than his obsession with these cloistered, crumbling books, his great treasure and secret amidst a country barrelling away from the memory of war. Beautifully written, restrained, and memorable, Library for the War-Wounded turns a real life into great literature by confronting the universal question: Who are our parents, really?

ISBN:	978-1-5266-6361-0
EAN:	9781526663610
Doporučená cena:	399 Kč
Počet stran	200 stran
Datum vydání	2024
Pořadí vydání	neurčeno
Vazba	kniha, brožovaná vazba
Jazyk	anglický
Autor:	Monika Helferová
Překladatel:	Gillian Davidson
Nakladatelství	Bloomsbury
Tématická skupina	13 - Krásná literatura