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Dark Company - A Novel in Ten Rainy Nights

English · Paperback / Softback

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Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of the landlocked German interior and remembers the events that lost him his home, his boat, and his livelihood: his apprenticeship in the cold halls of the Royal Naval College in London; the dangers of the mean streets and waterfront of New York in the 1970s, and Poland under martial law; Germany after the reunification, when for a year or so it seemed that the whole country drifted rudderless, drawn by the current of history to who knows where. Thomas remembers childhood, his first love, and the warnings of his grandfather: Beware the dark company! This mysterious band of men and women dressed in black cast a shadow over his story, as he wrestles with the secrets, the unplumbed depths of his soul, the hazards lurking below a seemingly placid surface, and throughout it all, the rain, falling night after night. Dark Company is a superb example of a distinctly German tradition in weird fiction which claims its roots in Kafka and Herbert Rosendorfer.

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Gert Loschütz is the author of many short stories, children's books, and novels, most recently Das erleuchtete Fenster.

Product details

Authors Gert Loschutz, Gert Loschütz
Assisted by Samuel P Willcocks (Translation), Samuel P. Willcocks (Translation)
Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.03.2021
 
EAN 9780857428288
ISBN 978-0-85742-828-8
No. of pages 166
Dimensions 204 mm x 128 mm x 16 mm
Weight 200 g
Series The German List
The Seagull Library of German
The Seagull Library of German Literature
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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