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Die Annäherung
“The Approach” (title translated by AI)
Anna Mitgutsch (born 1948)
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After a collapse, the very old Theo is taken to hospital and feels that he has reached the end of his life: from now on he needs care, and he feels a helplessness he has never known. He takes stock, thinks of his first wife, who died young and whose death he only now understands, and of omissions that can no longer be put right, while his long, happy marriage to Berta loses its balance. His daughter Frieda, a retired teacher estranged from him for decades, wants at last to learn the truth about his past in the war, and to be close to him. But it is Ludmila, his young Ukrainian carer, who reaches his heart.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 441 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria
- First published
- 2016 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag
- Author's age
- 68 when first published
- ISBN
9783630874708 (original)