One clear ice-cold January morning at the beginning of the 21st century
Schimmelpfennig, Roland2019
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One clear ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge. On an icy motorway 80km outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodes. The lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by Tomasz, a Polish construction worker who cannot survive in Germany without his girlfriend. Elisabeth and Micha run away through the snow from their home village, crossing the wolf's tracks on their way to the city. A woman burns her mother's diaries on a Berlin balcony. And Elisabeth's father, a famous sculptor, observes the vast skeleton of a whale in his studio and asks: What am I doing here? And why?
Main title:
One clear ice-cold January morning at the beginning of the 21st century / Roland Schimmelpfennig ; translated by Jamie Bulloch.
Author:
Schimmelpfennig, Roland, authorBulloch, Jamie, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2019.
Collation:
240 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780857056979 (pbk)
Dewey class:
833.92FICTION
Language:
EnglishGerman
Subject:
BRN:
2759142