Sunset Container Gardening by Subset

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Sunset Container Gardening by Subset

In this companion to Urs Widmer's novel My Mother's Lover, the narrator is again the son who pieces together the fragments of his parents' stories. Since the age of twelve, Karl, the father, has observed the family tradition of recording his life in a single notebook, but when his book is lost soon after his death, his son resolves to rewrite it. Here, we get to know Karl's friends--a collection of anti-fascist painters and architects known as Group 33. We learn of the early years of Karl's marriage and follow his military service as the Swiss fear a German invasion during World War I, his political activity for the Communist Party, and his brief career as a teacher.
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Widmer brilliantly combines family history and historical events to tell the story of a man more at home in the world of the imagination than in the real world, a father who grows on the reader, just as he grows on his son.

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ISBN 13 9780376032089
ISBN 10 0376032081
Title Sunset Container Gardening
Author Subset
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Sunset Books,U.S.
Year published 2004-01-01
Number of pages 128
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.