In Times of Fading Light

ISBN-13: 9780571288588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str.

Eugen Ruge

Opis

The story begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. It then takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family's history.

Recenzje

Already hailed as a Cold War classic. Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year

O autorze

Eugen Ruge was born in the Urals and studied mathematics in Berlin. Before leaving the GDR for the West in 1988 he was a writer, contributing to documentaries made at the state-owned DEFA Studios. Since 1989 he has been writing and translating for theatres and broadcasters, and periodically teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts. In Times of Fading Light, his first novel, was an international bestseller and won the German Book Prize.