Snowleg - Nicholas Shakespeare

Snowleg

Buch | Softcover
400 Seiten
2005
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-946609-3 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends decades convincing himself that he is not in love until one day, with Germany now reunited, he decides to go back and look for her. But who was she, how will his actions have affected her, and how will her find her? All he knows of her identity is the nickname he gave her - Snowleg.

Snowleg is a powerful love story that explores the close, fraught relationship between England and Germany, between a man who grows up believing himself to be a chivalrous English public schoolboy and a woman who tries to live loyally under a repressive regime.

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year's best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novel is Secrets of the Sea. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.1.2005
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 277 g
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-09-946609-0 / 0099466090
ISBN-13 978-0-09-946609-3 / 9780099466093
Zustand Neuware
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