Centroeuropa

Early in the 1800s, on a winter's day by the Oder where Prussia meets Poland, a newcomer who hopes to make a living from this harsh soil lifts his wife's coffin off his wagon; she did not survive the trip. As he hacks at the iced-over ground to bury her, his spade meets a corpse, a Prussian cavalryman preserved by the cold. Such a find suggests that the earth holds many more dead, and from it grows the chronicle of a hostile stretch of Central Europe, crossed again and again by armies and upheavals, together with the doomed story of the one who tells it, a voice that is many people at once, like the history of Europe itself.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, Poland

First published

2020 by Galaxia Gutenberg

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9788418218088 (original)

9781913512392 (Peninsula Press, United Kingdom)

9781954276529 (Bellevue Literary Press, United States)

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