The English YearsHarvill Press, 2002 - 295 Seiten A literary masterpiece, a reclusive author and a war-time mystery. Gabriel Hirschfelder is a literary icon, his book an acknowledged masterpiece. He is living out his days in Southend-on-Sea. But fame has come at a price. He fled Vienna shortly before the outbreak of war, and in 1940 he was classified an undesirable alien and sent to a camp with other internees on the Isle of Man. The friends he made there changed his life for ever. Who were Lomnitz and Ossovsky? And who was the fourth man, Harrasser? Was he really deported to Canada or was he murdered? What happened on the Isle of Man to haunt Hirschfelder to his dying day? After his death, a young woman happens to meet his third and last wife and her curiosity is aroused. Her own ex-husband was obsessed with Hirschfelder, so she already knows a little bit about him. But now she feels impelled to make contact with the other women in his life. Her search brings to light many surprises as she uncovers a story with far-reaching implications for Hirschfelder's posthumous reputation. The English Years is a brilliant novel which combines the literary invention of Paul Auster with the European cultural sensibility of W.G. Sebald." |
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... standing in front of their own photographs . They included studio portraits , stiff pictures of young people in their Sunday best looking at the camera with bashful pride , snapshots of laughing faces , groups with an arrow picking out ...
... standing in front of their own photographs . They included studio portraits , stiff pictures of young people in their Sunday best looking at the camera with bashful pride , snapshots of laughing faces , groups with an arrow picking out ...
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... standing behind him with their inevitable fixed bayonets , as if he might jump overboard at any moment . Although it had looked like rain all day the sky had suddenly cleared , there was a dramatic sprinkling of ragged cloud , and the ...
... standing behind him with their inevitable fixed bayonets , as if he might jump overboard at any moment . Although it had looked like rain all day the sky had suddenly cleared , there was a dramatic sprinkling of ragged cloud , and the ...
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... standing there , watching them go , and the men left behind shouting goodbyes , his picture blurs before my eyes yet again . These meetings , obviously part of the accepted legend of life behind barbed wire and thrown out as a sop to ...
... standing there , watching them go , and the men left behind shouting goodbyes , his picture blurs before my eyes yet again . These meetings , obviously part of the accepted legend of life behind barbed wire and thrown out as a sop to ...
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London 17 May 1940 | 35 |
Catherine | 85 |
Douglas Isle of Man 21 June 1940 | 121 |
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