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Das Floß der Medusa
“The Raft of the Medusa” (title translated by AI)
Franzobel (born 1967)
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18 July 1816: off the west coast of Africa, the captain of the Argus spots a raft about twenty metres long. What he sees on it chills his blood: hollow eyes, parched lips, burnt skin covered in sores. The emaciated figures are the last fifteen of 147 people who survived two weeks on the open sea after the frigate Medusa sank, cast adrift because there were too few places in the lifeboats. Through the eyes of the ship's boy Victor, the story tells how this tragedy came about, and how quickly the law ends where the bread runs out.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 588 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2017 by Paul Zsolnay Verlag
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9783552058163 (original)
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