Hermine - An Animal Life

Fiction. Translation. "Marie Beig's HERMINE is a heartbreaking bestiary, a human life told in sixty-four animals. The book's design is apt, since its protagonist elicits less regard from her farm family than its animals do. Imagine a world in which your first memories are of your 'father's bad-tempered scowl and the angry faces of sisters and brothers who were struck and struck back.' A world in which tenderness is 'always turning away again to someone else' -- -Jim Shepard. Translated from the German by Jaimy Gordon.

About the author

MARIA BEIG was born in rural Upper Swabia, in the south of Germany, in 1920. Author of eight novels and four short story collections, she won the Alemannischer Literaturpreis in 1983, the Literaturpreis of the City of Stuttgart in 1997, and the Hebbel-Preis in 2004.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Beig, Jaimy Gordon
• Assisted by: Jaimy Gordon (Translation)
• Publisher: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9781930974487
• ISBN: 978-1-930974-48-7
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 208 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 252 g
• Series: New Issues Fiction; New Issues Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama