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Product details
- ISBN 9780857425270
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 29 Mar 2018
- Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In this companion to Urs Widmer's novel My Mother's Lover, the narrator is again the son who pieces together the fragments of his parents' stories. Since the age of twelve, Karl, the father, has observed the family tradition of recording his life in a single notebook, but when his book is lost soon after his death, his son resolves to rewrite it. Here, we get to know Karl's friends--a collection of anti-fascist painters and architects known as Group 33. We learn of the early years of Karl's marriage and follow his military service as the Swiss fear a German invasion during World War II, his political activity for the Communist Party, and his brief career as a teacher. Widmer brilliantly combines family history and historical events to tell the story of a man more at home in the world of the imagination than in the real world, a father who grows on the reader, just as he grows on his son.
Urs Widmer is co-founder of Verlag der Autoren, an author-owned publishing house focusing on texts related to the performing arts. His other works include My Mother's Lover, also published by Seagull Books. He lives and works in Zurich. Donal McLaughlin specializes in translating Swiss fiction.
