000			02831cam a22004218i 4500
001			ocn957303458
003			OCoLC
005			20180722224840.0
008			170410s2017 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2017012724
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dYDX _dBDX _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dDAD _dOCLCO _dFMG _dABG _dT7B _dIK2 _dNPC _dNFG
019			_a1001435565
020			_a9780374278144 _q(hardback)
020			_a0374278148 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)957303458 _z(OCoLC)1001435565
041	1		_aeng _hger
042			_apcc
092			_aRothmann _bRalf
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aRothmann, Ralf, _eauthor. _9337031
240	1	0	_aIm Frühling sterben. _lEnglish.
245	1	0	_aTo die in spring : _ba novel / _cRalf Rothmann ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2017.
300			_a211 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldier. Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son -- the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel -- is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however, leaving nothing but the barest skeleton of a story on those pages, leading his son to fill in the gaps himself, rightly or wrongly, with what he can piece together of his father's early life. This, then, is the story of Walter and his dangerously outspoken friend Friedrich Caroli, seventeen-year-old trainee milkers on a dairy farm in northern Germany who are tricked into volunteering for the army during the spring of 1945: the last, and in many ways the worst, months of the war. The men are driven to the point of madness by what they experience, and when Friedrich finally deserts his post, Walter is forced to do the unthinkable. Told in a remarkable impressionistic voice, focusing on the tiny details and moments of grotesque beauty that flower even in the most desperate situations, Ralf Rothmann's To Die in Spring "ushers in the post -- [Günter] Grass era with enormous power" (Die Zeit)." -- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldier"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aSubtitle from dust jacket.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xYouth _vFiction. _9337032
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aWar fiction. _2lcgft _9282297
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2lcgft _921488
700	1		_aWhiteside, Shaun, _etranslator. _9115418
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c256960 _d256960