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Schlafende Sonne
“Sleeping Sun” (title translated by AI)
Thomas Lehr (born 1957)
English editions
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A century of Germany in a single day. Rudolf Zacharias travels to Berlin to attend the opening of an exhibition by his former student Milena Sonntag, in which she takes stock not only of her own art but of her time. Like pictures at an exhibition, the story tells of historical catastrophes and of the private entanglements of three people, from the battlefields of the First World War to present-day Berlin, mixing storytelling, reflection and formal daring into a labyrinth of history that makes literature itself a way of understanding.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 637 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1914 to the present
- First published
- 2017 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9783446256477 (original)
- More
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