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The Blind Side of the Heart
Die Mittagsfrau
Julia Franck (born 1970)
Translated by Anthea Bell
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The Blind Side of the Heart
Harvill Secker · United Kingdom · 2009 · 424 pages
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The Blindness of the Heart
Grove Press · United States · 2009 · 424 pages
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When Helene's father comes home from the First World War mortally wounded, her Jewish mother loses her mind. Helene moves to Berlin, where she meets Carl, and when he dies shortly before their engagement, life loses all meaning for her. She marries Wilhelm and gives him a son, but the love the boy demands becomes unbearable to her. The story of a German-Jewish family between the two world wars and beyond, carried by women whose lives, between hope, love and loss, cannot succeed: a story of being abandoned.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 429 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Family, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1910s–1940s
- First published
- 2007 by S. Fischer Verlag
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
- ISBN
9783100226006 (original)
9781846552120 (Harvill Secker, United Kingdom)
9780802119674 (Grove Press, United States)
- More
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