August

August is Christa Wolf's last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary gift to her husband. In it, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946.

Info autore

Christa Wolf's (1929-2011) other works include the ground-breaking Cassandra, Patterns of Childhood and The Quest for Christa T. She has been awarded many prizes, among them the Büchner Prize of the German Academy of Language and Poetry the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Geschwister Scholl Prize of the city of Munich. Katy Derbyshire is a London-born translator who has lived in Berlin for many years. Her translations of Inka Parei's Shadow-Boxing Woman and What Darkness Was, and Dorothee Elmiger's Invitation to the Bold of Heart are also published by Seagull Books

Riassunto

August is Christa Wolf’s last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary gift to her husband. In it, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Katy Derbyshire, Christa Wolf
• Con la collaborazione di: Katy Derbyshire (Traduzione)
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Titolo originale: August
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780857427076
• ISBN: 978-0-85742-707-6
• Pagine: 80
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 200 mm x 4 mm
• Peso: 68 g
• Serie: German List; The German List; The German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP)
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Viaggi > Guide turistiche