Winters in the South by Norbert Gstrein
As ethnic tensions escalate into war, Marija returns in confusion to her native Croatia - call it a mid-life crisis. She soon takes up with a young soldier, but her age does not give her the least power over him. On the other side of the world, her estranged father is gearing up to enter the fray, raising the cash to raise an army. Exiled to Argentina, he has been waiting for this moment since 1945. But war is a young man's game, and even his closest comrades cannot be trusted. If the Old Man is to meet his daughter again it will be in a world altered beyond his understanding, where the only soldiers he commands are in his head.
'Gstrein's prose is muscular and compelling.. highly recommended' Independent. * Independent *
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'Overtones of Stieg Larsson and The Boys From Brazil' . * Buzz *
Norbert Gstrein was born in 1961 in the Austrian Tyrol, and studied mathematics at Innsbruck and Stanford, California. He is the author of The English Years, which won widespread critical acclaim in Germany and was awarded the coveted Alfred Döblin Prize.
Anthea Bell has won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German translation four times. She was awarded an O.B.E. for her services to literature in 2010.
Julian Evans wrote and presented the BBC Radio 3 series on the European novel, The Romantic Road, and has won the Prix du Rayonnement de la Langue Française. His most recent book is Semi-Invisible Man: the life of Norman Lewis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906694302 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906694303 |
| Title | Winters in the South |
| Author | Norbert Gstrein |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Deutscher Buchpreis (The German Book Prize) 2008 |
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