One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century
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One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig
A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany's most successful playwright
Schimmelpfennig's world is uncomfortable and cold; but in the hearts of his characters glow the flames of longing, passion and solidarity -- Martin Halter * Berliner Zeitung *
The exhilarating narrative is wonderfully concise, and the imagery is intensely cinematic-- Barry Forshaw * Guardian. *
Mesmerizing . . . The narrative is wonderfully spare, rendered in clear, simple sentences . . . A satisfying and memorable story -- Alannah Hopkin * Irish Examiner *
A powerful novel of extraordinary momentum and contemporaneity - its looping narrative is both gripping and unsettling * Spiegel *
A moving book that delicately and expertly captures a prevailing atmosphere - of disorientation and bleakness in society, and of unexpressed feelings * Deutschland Radiokultur *
As cool and incisive as its title suggests * TAZ *
A looping, episodic, beguiling contemporary fable about a set of dysfunctional, seemingly disconnected characters whose fates are spun together along the mysterious wolf 's path . . . delivered crisply in Jamie Bulloch's translation. * Daily Telegraph (*****) *
A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace. * Irish Times *
Roland Schimmelpfennig shockingly reverses readerly expectations and conjures up for us a superbly dark comedy of manners . . . This combined quality of stage economy and theatricality accentuates what is essentially a particularly unflinching, penetrating gaze into the state of our society. * Bookanista *
A vivid ensemble of nuanced characters emerge as their daily lives coincide through a cleverly multi-layered, interconnected narrative . . . Schimmlpfennig rarely says too much in a brilliantly kaleidoscopic morality tale that suggests a great deal * Financial Times *
A magnificent achievement, a novel of terrific originality * New European *
The exhilarating narrative is wonderfully concise, and the imagery is intensely cinematic-- Barry Forshaw * Guardian. *
Mesmerizing . . . The narrative is wonderfully spare, rendered in clear, simple sentences . . . A satisfying and memorable story -- Alannah Hopkin * Irish Examiner *
A powerful novel of extraordinary momentum and contemporaneity - its looping narrative is both gripping and unsettling * Spiegel *
A moving book that delicately and expertly captures a prevailing atmosphere - of disorientation and bleakness in society, and of unexpressed feelings * Deutschland Radiokultur *
As cool and incisive as its title suggests * TAZ *
A looping, episodic, beguiling contemporary fable about a set of dysfunctional, seemingly disconnected characters whose fates are spun together along the mysterious wolf 's path . . . delivered crisply in Jamie Bulloch's translation. * Daily Telegraph (*****) *
A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace. * Irish Times *
Roland Schimmelpfennig shockingly reverses readerly expectations and conjures up for us a superbly dark comedy of manners . . . This combined quality of stage economy and theatricality accentuates what is essentially a particularly unflinching, penetrating gaze into the state of our society. * Bookanista *
A vivid ensemble of nuanced characters emerge as their daily lives coincide through a cleverly multi-layered, interconnected narrative . . . Schimmlpfennig rarely says too much in a brilliantly kaleidoscopic morality tale that suggests a great deal * Financial Times *
A magnificent achievement, a novel of terrific originality * New European *
Roland Schimmelpfennig, born in 1967, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright. He began his career as a journalist before studying to be a theatre director, and his plays have now been performed in more than forty countries. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Prize, to honor his entire Oeuvre. One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century is his first novel, shortlisted for the Leipzig Bookfair Prize in 2016. His play Winter Solstice is on tour across the U.K. in 2018. He lives in Berlin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857056979 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857056972 |
| Title | One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century |
| Author | Roland Schimmelpfennig |
| Series | Maclehose Press Editions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2019-01-10 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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