Name: Maybe Esther von Katja Petrowskaja
SKU: 9780008245313
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Maybe Esther Zusammenfassung

Maybe Esther Katja Petrowskaja

The moving story of one family's entanglement with twentieth-century history

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Katja Petrowskaja's family story is inextricably entangled with the history of twentieth-century Europe. There is her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomat in Moscow in 1932 and was sentenced to death. There is her Ukrainian grandfather, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared forty years later. And there is her great-grandmother - whose name may or may not have been Esther - who was too old and frail to leave Kiev when the Jews there were rounded up, and was killed by a Nazi outside her house.

Taking the reader from Berlin to Warsaw, to Moscow, to Kiev, from Google searches, strange encounters and coincidences to archives, anecdotes and jokes, Katja Petrowskaja undertakes a journey in search of her own place in past and present, memory and history, languages and countries. The result is Maybe Esther - a singular, haunting, unforgettable work of literature.

Maybe Esther Bewertungen

'Unflinchingly potent ... Revolutionaries, war heroes, teachers and phantoms populate these magnetic pages' Irish Independent

'Rich, intriguing ... Maybe Esther calls to mind the itinerant style of W. G. Sebald' Guardian

'Intensely involving ... a fervent meditation on love and loss, with a remarkable cast of characters' Financial Times

'Mesmerising. It is writing that dazzles ... deeply thoughtful and with insights that flash like sharp implements' New Statesman

'There's a literary miracle on every page here, the sort of book that makes you fall in love with reading. A Proust for the Google age' Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible

'This intimately told quest into the darkness of the 20th century is luminously unforgettable. Maybe Esther, on her civilising journey 'against time', will stay with me forever' Kapka Kassabova, author of Border

'Rarely is research into family history this exciting, this moving. If this were a novel it would seem exaggerated and unbelievable. This is great literature' Der Spiegel

'Modern German literature is richer for this intelligent, flamboyant and extremely original voice' Die Zeit

Über Katja Petrowskaja

Katja Petrowskaja was born in Kiev in 1970, to a Russian-speaking family. She studied literature in Tartu, Estonia and then completed her PhD in Moscow. She has lived in Berlin since 1999. She won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2013 and wrote her bestselling first book, Maybe Esther, in German. It was published in 2014 and was awarded the Premio Strega Europeo Prize, the Aalen Town Schubart Literary Prize, the Ernst Toller Prize and the Aspekte Literature Prize. It has been translated into nineteen languages.

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Sku

GOR010177738

ISBN 13

9780008245313

ISBN 10

0008245312

Titel

Maybe Esther Katja Petrowskaja

Autor

Katja Petrowskaja

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

HarperCollins Publishers

Datum

20190207

Anzahl der Seiten

272

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