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ANNIVERSARIES by Uwe Johnson - Set of 2 Softcover Books No Slipcase
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- ISBN
- 9781681372037
- Book Title
- Anniversaries (Boxed Set) : from a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
- Item Length
- 8.8 in
- Original Language
- German
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback / Box or Slipcased
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 3.8 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Urban, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Item Weight
- 80.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 1720 Pages
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A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time. Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German migr to Manhattan's Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old daughter, Marie--a story of work and school, of friends and lovers and the countless small encounters with neighbors and strangers that make up big-city life. An everyday tale, but also a tale of the events of the day, as gleaned by Gesine from The New York Times Johnson could hardly foresee the convulsions of 1968, but some of the news--the racial unrest roiling America, the escalating war in Vietnam--was sure to be news for some time yet to come. Finally, it would be a tale told by Gesine to Marie about Gesine's childhood in a small north German town, of her independent and enterprising father, of her troubled mother, of Nazi Germany (Gesine was born the year Hitler came to power) and World War II and Soviet retribution and the grimly regulated realities of Communist East Germany. An ambitious historical novel as well as a wonderfully observed New York novel, Anniversaries would take in the unsettled world of the present along with the twentieth century's disastrous past, while vividly depicting the struggle of a loving, though hardly uncomplicated mother and a bright, indomitably curious girl to understand and care for each other and to shape a human world. Gesine and Marie are among the most memorable and engaging characters in literature, and Anniversaries , at once monumental and intimate, sweeping and full of incident, stylistically adventurous and endlessly absorbing, is quite simply one of the great books of our time.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681372037
ISBN-13
9781681372037
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242784258
Product Key Features
Book Title
Anniversaries (Boxed Set) : from a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
Original Language
German
Format
Trade Paperback / Box or Slipcased
Language
English
Topic
Urban, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Historical
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
1720 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Height
3.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
80.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
2 Vols.
Lc Classification Number
Pt2670.O36j313 2018
Reviews
"This book is truly a masterpiece. . . . It is a record, and an enduring one for our whole post-Hitler era. You have actually made this past tangible and--perhaps a much harder task--you have made it convincing. Now I know how it was and is over there--know it down to the tips of my toes. . . . This seems to be the only appropriate way to speak and think: about great-grandmother and grandmother and mother and child, in the interplay of generations and across two continents." --Hannah Arendt, February 7, 1972, Letter to Uwe Johnson "Uwe Johnson is the most incorruptible writer I've ever read, always searching for what we so frivolously call the truth. In Anniversaries he approaches this fundamental thing, the truth, from different sides, across different continents, across time. Page after page, we are shown how we need to see clearly, without prejudice, to think properly. Page after page, thinking with Johnson offers us the greatest of pleasures." --Jenny Erpenbeck "A gripping, complex, highly significant work in which the author displays not only his mastery as a storyteller but also his humor, irony, and descriptive power." -- The New York Times "Johnson has Balzac's passion for the telling detail, the revealing exactitude, here a passion that is impelled by the imagination of love. So intensely are the figures imagined--Gesine and her daughter, Gesine's desolated mother, and all the tribe of Baltic relatives who variously endure and resist the Nazi scourge--that the ballast of Manhattan fact is needed to keep the book on the page, the life in focus, to keep the agony from getting out of drawing ." --Richard Howard
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-010220
Dewey Decimal
833.914
Dewey Edition
23
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