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Wolff, Iris

ISBN 10: 1917593007 / ISBN 13: 9781917593007

Verlag: Moth Books, 2025

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Inhaltsangabe:

In rural Transylvania, a young wife fearing for her unborn child takes a sleigh ride through all-enveloping snow. BLURRED tells the story of that child, Samuel, through the voices of those who know him.

The boy grows up behind the Iron Curtain under the brutal Ceausescu regime in Romania, where language masks truth and even minor acts have repercussions. Harsh political realities are counterbalanced by the rhythms of village life. Samuel's story builds through places, memories, his family, the acts of individuals and all the ways in which we affect others.

What happens when one decides to stay - but others must stay?

What becomes of those who migrate, and where do they really belong?

This moving story of exile and migration encompasses one century and many lives with remarkable depth and also brevity. Iris Wolff's lyrical yet precise prose evokes a lost time and a scattered people in this multiply-prize-winning novel.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Iris Wolff was born in the medieval town of Sibiu, Transylvania, emigrated to Germany as a child and now lives in Freiburg in Breisgau. She studied German literature, religious studies, painting and graphics. She worked for several years in the German Literature Archive in Marbach and also lectured on art and cultural education.

She has written five novels and a collection of short stories. A best-seller in Germany and celebrated for her original storytelling and style, she has won over a dozen literary prizes.

The author describes her writing as 'a rebellion against time and its greatest impertinence, transience'. Her books vividly evoke her own childhood, the village house and garden where she grew up in the Banat, a region of Romania formerly populated by German speakers, multiple nationalities and communities. Emigration during the communist period and after the fall of the Iron Curtain brought 800 years of history to an end.

BLURRED was nominated for the German Book Prize, the Bavarian Book Prize (fiction) and the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize; it won two prestigious awards, the Evangelical Book Prize and the LiteraTour North Prize.

Bibliografische Details

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Verlag: Moth Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Used; Very Good