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Abendland
“The Occident” (title translated by AI)
Michael Köhlmeier (born 1949)
English editions
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Carl Jacob Candoris, a mathematician and citizen of the world, is ninety-five and close to death when he makes his life's confession. Sebastian Lukasser, a writer in his fifties who has himself only just escaped an early death, is entrusted with writing it down. He weaves the stories of his own family and of Candoris's into a panorama of a whole century, crowded with vivid minor characters, mixing historical fact and clever fiction: about personal and political hopes, art and life, and the best and worst of an era.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 775 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2007 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 58 when first published
- ISBN
9783446209138 (original)
- More
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