The Bureau of Past Management by Abigail Wender
In her novel, Iris Hanika shows how the crimes of the Nazi era hold the Germans in their clutches to this day. Can a country manage its past, or ought we to remain helpless in the face of the horrific crimes of the Holocaust?
"A novel that opens up a windowA masterpiece." Denis Scheck, ARD druckfrisch
Abigail Wender is a poet and translator. Her debut poetry collection, Reliquary, was published in 2021. She lives in New York City. Iris Hanika, born in Würzburg in 1962, has lived in Berlin since 1979. She received the prestigious Hans Fallada Prize in 2006. Her novel Treffen sich zwei was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2008. The Bureau of Past Management was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature and the LiteraTour Nord Prize. She was a resident at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2017/18. Her most recent novel Echos Kammern won the Hermann Hesse Literature Prize in 2020 and the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Award in 2021.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783863913076 |
| ISBN 10 | 3863913078 |
| Title | The Bureau of Past Management |
| Author | Iris Hanika |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | V & Q Books |
| Year published | 2021-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Prizes | Winner of European Union Prize for Literature 2010 |
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