The Year is '42

ISBN-13: 9780747571049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str.

Nella Bielski;Lisa Appignanesi;John Berger

Opis

The year is 1942 and Europe is besieged by war. Germany has defeated most of Europe, is ruling France, and approaching Russia. Three lives - Karl, a German officer; Hans, a fellow officer and old friend of Karl's; and Katia, a doctor - are bound together b

Recenzje

'A dense, elusive, wholly original and moving novel' John le Carré

O autorze

Nella Bielski was born in the Ukraine and lives in Paris. She writes in French and is the author of several novels including Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy and After Arkadia. She has also written for the cinema, Isabella, and for the theatre, A Question of Geography, which was staged by the RSC. John Berger was born in London in 1926. His many books include the Booker-Prize-winning novel G, and Ways of Seeing. He has also translated the poetry of Aimé Césaire and Nella Bielski's Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy with Lisa Appignanesi. He lives in France. Lisa Appignanesi's latest novel is The Memory Man, and her non-fiction includes the acclaimed memoir Losing the Dead. Her most recent translations include My Forbidden Face and Ma Yah's The Diary of a Chinese Schoolgirl. A former university lecturer and Deputy Director of the ICA, Lisa Appignanesi is Vice President of English Pen and a Chevalier de L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She lives in London. John Berger was born in London in 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include To the Wedding, King, and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G. Amongst his outstanding studies of art and photography are Another Way of Telling, The Success and Failure of Picasso, Titian: Nymph and Shepherd (with Katya Berger), and the internationally acclaimed Ways of Seeing. He lived and worked in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag). His collection of essays The Shape of a Pocket was published in 2001. His latest novel, From A to X, was published in 2008. The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, produced by Complicite and based on a story by Berger, toured for three years between 1994 and 1997. About Looking, published by Bloomsbury in April 2009, was the follow-up to the seminal Ways of Seeing, one of the most influential books on art in the 20th century. He died in early 2017. John Berger was born in London in 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include To the Wedding, King, and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G. Amongst his outstanding studies of art and photography are Another Way of Telling, The Success and Failure of Picasso, Titian: Nymph and Shepherd (with Katya Berger), and the internationally acclaimed Ways of Seeing. He lived and worked in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag). His collection of essays The Shape of a Pocket was published in 2001. His latest novel, From A to X, was published in 2008. The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, produced by Complicite and based on a story by Berger, toured for three years between 1994 and 1997. About Looking, published by Bloomsbury in April 2009, was the follow-up to the seminal Ways of Seeing, one of the most influential books on art in the 20th century. He died in early 2017.