The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero
Jamie Bulloch, Paulus Hochgatterer
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 112pg
23 Jul 2020 UK
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9780857059499
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In October 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl arrives in a tiny farming community in Lower Austria, at some distance from the main theatre of war. She remembers very little about how she got there, it seems she has suffered trauma from bombardment. One night a few months later, a young, emaciated Russian appears, a deserter from forced labour in the east. He has nothing with him but a canvas roll, which he guards like a hawk. Their burgeoning friendship is abruptly interrupted by the arrival of a group of Wehrmacht soldiers in retreat, who commandeer the farm. Paulus Hochgatterer' s intensely atmospheric, resonant novel is like a painting in itself, a beautiful observation of small shifts from apathy in a community not directly affected by the war, but exhausted by it nonetheless; individual acts of moral bravery which to some extent have the power to change the course of history. Longlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2017, this subtle, evocative novella will appeal to readers of Hubert Mingarelli' s A MEAL IN WINTER and Jenny Erpenbeck' s THE END OF DAYS. Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
Hochgatterer' s great art is to transform psychological confusion into a language of extreme clarity . . . This Austrian author writes with a sparseness that builds to a powerful crescendo before the dramatic finale. - Neue Zurcher ZeitungLean, incredibly vivid sentences . . . the tension never lets up - Die WeltAustria' s answer to David Lynch - 3sat KulturzeitHis novels unleash a force that is rarely felt in contemporary German-language literature - Die PresseThe final days have been reported, filmed, sung and documented a hundred times, but rarely told as vividly as in Paulus Hochgatterer' s new book . . . he narrates the last act of a drama in which life and future plans were reshuffled. This could be dismissed as hubris, were Hochgatterer not such a good writer. - ProfilHis work conveys a heightened awareness of the fragility of what keeps our innermost souls in check - Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungPaulus Hochgatterer writes about life and the chasms that swallow you when you take the wrong path - WDR
Paulus Hochgatterer lives as a writer and child psychiatrist in Vienna. He is the author of several novels and story collections, including The Sweetness of Life (for which he was the winner of the European Literature Prize) and The Mattress House, two crime novels published by MacLehose Press.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780857059499
Published: 23 Jul 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 112

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