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Panischer Frühling
“Panicked Spring” (title translated by AI)
Gertrud Leutenegger (born 1948)
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A volcanic eruption in Iceland shuts down European air traffic, and tens of thousands of people are stranded at airports. While pictures of the ash cloud go round the world, a radiant blue spring sky stretches over the Thames. On London Bridge, the narrator meets Jonathan, a young man with a birthmark on his face who sells the homeless newspaper. The two feel strangely familiar to each other. They meet every day and confide their stories, until the forgotten secrets of one slowly pass into the other. Then Jonathan suddenly disappears, and she sets out to look for him, and for herself.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 217 pages in the original
- Set in
- United Kingdom
- First published
- 2014 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 66 when first published
- ISBN
9783518424216 (original)
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