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Jacob beschließt zu lieben
“Jacob Decides to Love” (title translated by AI)
Catalin Dorian Florescu (born 1967)
English editions
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The adventurous life of Jacob Obertin, from the Swabian village of Triebswetter in the Romanian Banat, set between the late 1920s and the early 1950s: a story of love and friendship, flight and betrayal, and of how a person's capacity to love can carry him through everything. Jacob's story widens into a family epic that tells the fate of the Obertins over 300 years, in dense, fantastic images, beginning with the Thirty Years' War in Lorraine. At the end of the eighteenth century, like thousands of others from Lorraine, Jacob's ancestors set out on the dangerous road to the Banat in search of a better life and land of their own.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 402 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Family, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania, France, 1620s–1950s
- First published
- 2011 by C. H. Beck
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9783406612671 (original)