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Library for the War-Wounded
Vati
Monika Helfer (born 1947)
Translated by Gillian Davidson
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Library for the War-Wounded
Bloomsbury · United Kingdom · 15 February 2024 · Hardcover
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A man with an artificial leg, an absent man, a widower, a pensioner, a lover of literature. The narrator circles her father's life and tells of her own childhood and youth: of the space and the library of the convalescent home for war victims in the mountains, which he ran after returning wounded from the war, collecting books and living with and for them; of poverty and cramped living in a settlement with many children in one kitchen; and of what she knows about a father who was as silent as many men of his time, a silence that shaped his children's lives as well.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 172 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2021 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 74 when first published
- ISBN
9783446269170 (original)
9781526657336 (Bloomsbury, United Kingdom)
- More
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