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Pfaueninsel
“Peacock Island” (title translated by AI)
Thomas Hettche (born 1964)
English editions
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Peacock Island in the Havel near Berlin is an artificial paradise. The story begins like a fairy tale: a queen meets a dwarf and is terribly frightened. Marie, a woman of restricted growth, grows up on the island between the wars of liberation and the Restoration, among the palm house and the menagerie, garden art and philosophical conversation, and helps the royal family when they visit. Through her life a whole century passes, from the end of the Rococo to the coming of the railway, in a story about the taming of nature, human dignity, the nature of time and the sensitivity of soul and body.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 343 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 19th century
- First published
- 2014 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9783462045994 (original)
- More
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