Accident: a Day's News by Christa Wolf

Accident: a Day's News by Christa Wolf

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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. In the space of a single day, the narrator confronts both mortality and above all, life and the import of each moment lived.

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Accident: a Day's News by Christa Wolf

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. In the space of a single day, the narrator confronts both mortality and above all, life and the import of each moment lived.
Wolf, Christa: - Christa Wolf s (1929 2011) other works include the ground-breaking Cassandra, Patterns of Childhood and The Quest for Christa T. She has been awarded many prizes, among them the Buchner Prize of the German Academy of Language and Poetry the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Geschwister Scholl Prize of the city of Munich.
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ISBN 13 9780226905068
ISBN 10 0226905063
Title Accident: a Day's News
Author Christa Wolf
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University Of Chicago Press
Year published 2001-05-29
Number of pages 121
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.