The Ghost Keeper
Autor Natalie Morrillen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2019
Winner of the HarperCollins Publishers/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel, set in Vienna during the 1930s and ’40s, centres on a poignant love story—and a friendship that ends in betrayal.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781443450461
ISBN-10: 1443450464
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 1443450464
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
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Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel, set in Vienna during the 1930s and ’40s, centres on a poignant love story—and a friendship that ends in betrayal.
In the years between the two World Wars, Josef Tobak builds a quiet life around his friendships, his beloved wife, Anna, and his devotion to the old Jewish cemeteries of Vienna. Then comes the Anschluss in 1938, and Josef’s world is uprooted. His health disintegrates. His wife and child are forced to flee to China. His closest Gentile friend joins the Nazi Party—yet helps him escape to America.
When the war ends, Josef returns to Vienna and tries to make sense of what remains—including his former Nazi friend, who, he discovers, protected Josef’s young female cousin throughout the war.
Returning to his cemeteries and a Vienna shattered by war, Josef finds himself beset by secrets, darkness and apparent righteousness marred by private cruelty. As the truth is unearthed, Josef’s care for the dead takes on new meaning as he confronts his own role in healing both his devastated community and his deepest wounds.
The Ghost Keeper is a story about the terrible choices we make to survive and our powerful connections to the communities and friends that define us. Here is a finely accomplished novel that introduces an exciting new voice to our literary landscape.
In the years between the two World Wars, Josef Tobak builds a quiet life around his friendships, his beloved wife, Anna, and his devotion to the old Jewish cemeteries of Vienna. Then comes the Anschluss in 1938, and Josef’s world is uprooted. His health disintegrates. His wife and child are forced to flee to China. His closest Gentile friend joins the Nazi Party—yet helps him escape to America.
When the war ends, Josef returns to Vienna and tries to make sense of what remains—including his former Nazi friend, who, he discovers, protected Josef’s young female cousin throughout the war.
Returning to his cemeteries and a Vienna shattered by war, Josef finds himself beset by secrets, darkness and apparent righteousness marred by private cruelty. As the truth is unearthed, Josef’s care for the dead takes on new meaning as he confronts his own role in healing both his devastated community and his deepest wounds.
The Ghost Keeper is a story about the terrible choices we make to survive and our powerful connections to the communities and friends that define us. Here is a finely accomplished novel that introduces an exciting new voice to our literary landscape.