This house is mine / Dörte Hansen ; translated from the German by Anne Stokes.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 325 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250100856
- 1250100852
- Altes Land. English
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | Hansen, Dorte | Available | 33111008568731 | ||||
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Main Library | Fiction | Hansen, Dorte | Available | 33111008499234 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Long-listed for the 2018 International DUBLIN Literary Award
All her life Vera has felt like a stranger in the old and drafty half-timbered farmhouse she arrived at as a five-year-old refugee from East Prussia in 1945, and yet she can't seem to let it go. Sixty years later, her niece Anne suddenly shows up at her door with her small son. Anne has fled the trendy Hamburg, Germany neighborhood she never fit into after her relationship imploded. Vera and Anne are strangers to each other but have much more in common than they think. As the two strong-willed and very different women share the great old house, they find what they have never thought to search for: a family.
Told in skillfully crafted alternating points of view and a nonlinear storyline, Dörte Hansen's internationally bestselling debut novel This House is Mine showcases her impressive talent for characterization and dialogue in an exceptional book that combines emotional depth and humor. The author's sparse language and sometimes oblique references make for a deeply immersive reading experience, and the characters will resonate long after the last page has been turned.
"Originally published in Germany under the title Altes Land by Albrecht Knaus Verlag"--Title page verso.
Vera is surprised when her niece shows up at her East Prussia farmhouse with her young son after fleeing a bad relationship in Hamburg and the pair find they have more in common than they ever thought possible.