Accident: a Day's News A Novel |
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Author:
| Wolf, Christa |
Translator:
| Schwarzbauer, Heike Takvorian, Rick |
Series title: | Phoenix Fiction Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-226-90506-8 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1989 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis.
An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis.