After Dachau

Zusatztext "Damning and damnably elegant." — Entertainment Weekly "Provocative, Orwellian .... [an]absorbing cautionary tale." — Publishers Weekly "Hairpin plot twists that spin wildly from mass genocide to the rediscovery of abstract expressionism.... After Dachau is a rare moral thriller in the tradition of Fahrenheit 451 ." — Village Voice Literary Supplement "A ghostly and subtle thriller/fantasia/parable about (more or less) how we conceive of history, identity, time. Think Brave New World ." — Esquire Magazine "Quinn's powerful writing style consistently impresses, as does his talent for creating suspense." — Rocky Mountain News "Entertaining... A taut, gripping, sinister, and often fun book." — Hartford Courant Informationen zum Autor Daniel Quinn is an American author and cultural critic. He is best known for his novel Ishmael for which he won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award among 2,500 other international entrants. His other works include The Story of B; My Ishmael; and Tales of Adam . He lives with his wife, Rennie, in Houston, Texas. For more information, visit the author’s website at www.ishmael.org. Klappentext Daniel Quinn! well known for" Ishmael - a life-changing book for readers the world over - once again turns the tables and creates an otherworld that is very like our own! yet fascinating beyond words. Imagine that Nazi Germany was the first to develop an atomic bomb and the Allies surrendered. America was never bombed! occupied! or even invaded! but was nonetheless forced to recognize Nazi world dominance. The Nazis continued to press their campaign to rid the planet of "mongrel races" until eventually the world - from Capetown to Tokyo - was populated by only white faces. Two thousand years in the future people don't remember! or much care! about this distant past. The reality is that to be human is to be Caucasian! and what came before was literally ancient history having nothing to do with those then living. Now imagine that reincarnation is real! that souls migrate over time from one living creature to another! and that a soul that once animated an American black woman living at the time of World War II now animates an Aryan in Quinn's new world! and that due to a traumatic accident memories of this earlier incarnation assert themselves. Compared by readers and critics alike to "1984 and "Brave New World! After Dachau is a new dystopian classic with much to say about our own time! and the dynamics of human history. Zusammenfassung “A rare moral thriller in the tradition of Fahrenheit 451 ,” this stunning work from the author of Ishmael is set in a white-washed alternate world where Nazis won the war ( Village Voice )   Daniel Quinn, well known for  Ishmael —a life-changing book for readers the world over—once again turns the tables and creates an otherworld that is very like our own, yet fascinating beyond words. Imagine that Nazi Germany was the first to develop an atomic bomb and the Allies surrendered. America was never bombed, occupied, or even invaded, but was nonetheless forced to recognize Nazi world dominance. The Nazis continued to press their campaign to rid the planet of “mongrel races” until eventually the world—from Capetown to Tokyo—was populated by only white faces. Two thousand years in the future, people don’t remember, or much care, about this distant past. The reality is that to be human is to be Caucasian, and what came before was literally ancient history having nothing to do with those then living.   Now imagine that reincarnation is real, that souls migrate over time from one living creature to another, and that a soul that once animated an American black woman living at the time of Wo...

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Quinn
• Publisher: Steerforth press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2006
• EAN: 9781581952155
• ISBN: 978-1-58195-215-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 214 mm x 17 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature