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Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996.
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Munich (Germany) -- Fiction.
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Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996.
Munich (Germany) -- Fiction.
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Pigeons on the grass /
Wolfgang
Koeppen
; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.
by
Koeppen
,
Wolfgang
,
1906-1996
.
A New Directions Book, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION KOE
Subjects
Munich (Germany) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780811229180 (trade pbk.)
Uniform title:
Tauben
im
Gras
.
English
Description:
xix, 216 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in 1953 in German as
Tauben
im
Grass.
Summary:
"Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the station and hires a porter; Emilia sells the last of her jewelry; Philipp gives himself up to despair; with their interracial love affair, Carla Behrend and Washington Price scandalize their neighbors-who still expect gifts of chocolate and coffee; a boy hustles to sell a stray dog; Mr. Edwin, a visiting poet, prepares for a reading; Frau Behrend disowns her daughter; Alexander stars as the Archduke in a new German Super-production; and Susanne seeks out a night to remember. In Michael Hofmann's words, "in their sum, they are the totality of existence."
Koeppen
spares no one and sees all in this penetrating and intense novel that surveys those who remain, and those who have just arrived, in a damaged society. As inventive as Joyce and as compulsively readable as Dickens, Pigeons on the Grass is a great lost classic"--Publisher.
Genre:
German fiction -- Translations into
English
.
Literary fiction.
Classic fiction.
Other authors:
Hofmann, Michael, 1957 Aug. 25-
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