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Author: Julia Franck ,
Anthea Bell
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.235kg
ISBN: 9780099572251
ISBN 10: 0099572257
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 06 November 2014
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
Franck is an outstanding talent of the Germany literary landscape Stuttgarter Zeitung A novel that, with its hypnotic language, creates its own realm of relevance... You dive back into the real world in shock Tages Anzeiger A virtuoso creator of poetically charged moods...never before has East Germany been so radically depicted as dead at birth as in the arresting, magical narrative web of Julia Franck Literarische Welt Like an expert geologist, Franck is digging deep into her family's extraordinary history creating things of beauty from its dark recesses. Diamond-hard and full of glittering prose, Back to Back is a powerful and moving book. I suspect there are more gems to come -- David Annand Sunday Telegraph Franck convincingly articulates cruelty and loss... The final product is a curious fusion of stark realism tempered with quirkily stylistic flights of fancy: the trademark of one of Germany's finest contemporary novelists -- Malcolm Forbes Literary Review
Like an expert geologist, Franck is digging deep into her family's extraordinary history creating things of beauty from its dark recesses. Diamond-hard and full of glittering prose, Back to Back is a powerful and moving book. I suspect there are more gems to come -- David Annand * Sunday Telegraph * Intoxicating... A curious fusion of stark realism tempered with quirkily stylistic flights of fancy: the trademark of one of Germany's finest contemporary novelists -- Malcolm Forbes * Literary Review * Franck is an outstanding talent of the Germany literary landscape * Stuttgarter Zeitung * Portrays the rise and fall of the state's ideals via the finely observed life of an artist and her children - a Jewish sculptor who survives to flourish, at a cost, in the GDR -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * A virtuoso creator of poetically charged moods...never before has East Germany been so radically depicted as dead at birth as in the arresting, magical narrative web of Julia Franck * Literarische Welt *
Author Information
Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. Her novel The Blind Side of the Heart won the German Book Prize and sold over a million copies in Germany alone. It was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize, and was named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and US magazine Kirkus Reviews. Back to Back is her second novel to be translated into English. She lives in Berlin.
