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Funeral for a dog : a novel / Thomas Pletzinger ; translated by Ross Benjamin.

by Pletzinger, Thomas, 1975-

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W.W. Norton, c2011.

Journalists -- Fiction.

Authors -- Fiction.

Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.

9780393337259 (trade pbk.)

0393337251 (trade pbk.)

Bestattung eines Hundes. English English.

Alternate title:

Bestattung eines Hundes.

322 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Translation of the German title: Bestattung eines Hundes.

Translated from German.

Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his editor); he suspects she has other reasons for sending him away. After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated ménage à trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present. Rich with anthropological and literary allusion, the novel tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future.

Winner of the Uwe-Johnson Prize.

German fiction -- Translations into English.

Psychological fiction.

Experimental fiction.

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