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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jean M. SnookPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc Edition: New edition Volume: 115 Weight: 0.450kg ISBN: 9781433136986ISBN 10: 1433136988 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 02 March 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations in the Afterword – Worthing Seafront 1983: Poor Harry – New York 1951: Lilly – Worthing 1950: Ann – New York 1953: Lilly – London 1954: The Savoy Hotel – Antwerp 1954: Henriette Stanley – Worthing/The Black Forest 1975: David – Worthing 1984: Ulrich – Afterword – Acknowledgments.ReviewsEvelyn Grill's The Antwerp Testament is the saga of a family living in the shadow of the Holocaust and poisoned by long-kept secrets. Jean M. Snook's fluid, readable translation personalizes the novel's multiple narrators as their stories of exile, dispersal, and disappointment unfold over many years and in several countries-from Germany to Belgium, England, Canada, and the United States. - David Dollenmayer, Literary Translator, Professor Emeritus, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Jean M. Snook, recipient of the prestigious Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, has done a masterful job in rendering Evelyn Grill's 2011 novel Das Antwerpener Testament into English. In this riveting, entertaining and instructive work Evelyn Grill offers a portrait of a marriage, the decline and dissolution of a wealthy family forced into exile, the lives of twentieth century European refugees who suffer the consequences of war. Mesmerizing in particular is the translator's Afterword with its detailed explanations, insights, biographical analysis. I wholeheartedly support this very fine project. - Renate Latimer, Literary Translator, Professor Emerita, Auburn University Jean M. Snook, recipient of the prestigious Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, has done a masterful job in rendering Evelyn Grill's 2011 novel Das Antwerpener Testament into English. In this riveting, entertaining and instructive work Evelyn Grill offers a portrait of a marriage, the decline and dissolution of a wealthy family forced into exile, the lives of twentieth century European refugees who suffer the consequences of war. Mesmerizing in particular is the translator's Afterword with its detailed explanations, insights, biographical analysis. I wholeheartedly support this very fine project. - Renate Latimer, Literary Translator, Professor Emerita, Auburn University Evelyn Grill's The Antwerp Testament is the saga of a family living in the shadow of the Holocaust and poisoned by long-kept secrets. Jean M. Snook's fluid, readable translation personalizes the novel's multiple narrators as their stories of exile, dispersal, and disappointment unfold over many years and in several countries-from Germany to Belgium, England, Canada, and the United States. - David Dollenmayer, Literary Translator, Professor Emeritus, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Author InformationJean M. Snook is Professor of German at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her translation of Gert Jonke’s The Distant Sound won the 2009 inaugural Austrian Cultural Forum Translation Prize as well as the 2011 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |