In My Brother's Shadow

Zusatztext 'Uwe Timm, a well-known novelist in Germany, is determined "not to smooth it all out in the telling", not to make it easy for us to understand and thereby to excuse' Informationen zum Autor Uwe Timm was born in Hamburg in 1940. He trained to be a furrier and went to college in Braunschweig. He graduated from high school in 1963, and went on to study Philosophy and German Literature in Munich and Paris. He was awarded his doctorate in philosophy in 1971. One of Germany's greatest contemporary writers and novelists, he now works in Munich and Berlin. Vorwort A unique and profoundly moving memoir exploring a brother's death fighting for the SS and one ordinary family's relationship with Nazi rule Zusammenfassung A unique and profoundly moving memoir exploring a brother's death fighting for the SS and one ordinary family's relationship with Nazi rule

Report

'There is something of a nightmarish quality in Timm's powerful memoir of the elder brother he lost in the war ... The tone throughout is tender but unsentimental. And in the hands of Timm, now a distinguished writer, this domestic drama serves as a microcosm of the German catastrophe' Sunday Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Uwe Timm, Timm Uwe
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2006
• EAN: 9780747579755
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-7975-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General