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Auf dem Maniototo - Roman

German · Hardback

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'All I had experienced, all the stories I had read or dreamed came to me the moment I, a stranger, turned the key in the lock of the unknown house.' In a sweltering basement in downtown Baltimore, Mavis Halleton, writer, ventriloquist and gossip, is struggling to write her novel when an unexpected invitation arrives. The Garretts, a couple Mavis has never heard of but who admire her work, are to spend time in Italy, and offer the use of their airy home in the Berkeley hills. During her stay, an earthquake hits northern Italy, and Mavis, to her surprise, inherits the house. But, surrounded by museum replicas and tasteful imitations, she finds reality itself is on shaky ground. In this highly inventive novel, reality, fiction and dreams are woven together as Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction.

About the author

Janet Frame wurde 1924 als drittes von fünf Kindern eines Eisenbahnarbeiters in Dunedin, Neuseeland, geboren, wo sie 2004 auch starb. Die Familienverhältnisse waren zum Teil tragisch, sie selbst wurde zu Unrecht als Schizophrene über Jahre in Nervenheilanstalten behandelt, u. a. mit Elektroschocks.§Frame ist Autorin von zwölf Romanen. Ihre Autobiographie gehört zu den bedeutendsten Beispielen für dieses Genre im 20. Jahrhundert. Janet Frame zählte zu den Anwärterinnen für den Literaturnobelpreis.

Product details

Authors Janet Frame
Publisher Suhrkamp
 
Languages German
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.1987
 
EAN 9783518019290
ISBN 978-3-518-01929-0
No. of pages 263
Dimensions 121 mm x 21 mm x 182 mm
Weight 286 g
Series Bibliothek Suhrkamp
Bibliothek Suhrkamp
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)

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