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Spoil the Harvest A Novel
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
16.03.2027
Verlag
Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterSeitenzahl
240 (Printausgabe)
Übersetzt von
Imogen Taylor
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781668267257
A Finalist for the Austrian Book Prize
For readers of Nelio Biedermann's Lázár and Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona, from a dazzling new voice in European literature, this compact, surreal epic tells the story of a rural farming family living on the edge of the German empire through the eyes of its final descendant.
The story begins with my great-grandmother, born a farmer's daughter on the first day of the new century in a village on the North Sea.
Alma has grown up on her family's stories. The sowing in the spring, the haymaking in summer, the potato harvest in autumn. The day Grandmother heard the planes come, and knew the war had begun. The dark-eyed Austrian soldier who approached her as she walked home from the baker's.
Now, as the last in the family line, Alma weaves together the gem-like detritus of the family's favorite storieslists, recipes, superstitions, lullabies and morein an attempt to understand what the women before her left unsaid. Moving seamlessly between the tender and the absurd, the mundane and the otherworldlya baby is born asleep and doesn't wake for fifteen years; smoke rises from grandfather's pipe years after he's buried; a midwife who attends every village birth, never seeming to ageAlma chronicles the dreams and desires her foremothers sacrificed over one hundred years of harvests.
A hypnotic mix of laconic wit and shimmering magic, Spoil the Harvest is a masterwork of emotional precision that asks what it means for a child to reckon with the forces of history, and for a young woman to inherit an ending.
For readers of Nelio Biedermann's Lázár and Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona, from a dazzling new voice in European literature, this compact, surreal epic tells the story of a rural farming family living on the edge of the German empire through the eyes of its final descendant.
The story begins with my great-grandmother, born a farmer's daughter on the first day of the new century in a village on the North Sea.
Alma has grown up on her family's stories. The sowing in the spring, the haymaking in summer, the potato harvest in autumn. The day Grandmother heard the planes come, and knew the war had begun. The dark-eyed Austrian soldier who approached her as she walked home from the baker's.
Now, as the last in the family line, Alma weaves together the gem-like detritus of the family's favorite storieslists, recipes, superstitions, lullabies and morein an attempt to understand what the women before her left unsaid. Moving seamlessly between the tender and the absurd, the mundane and the otherworldlya baby is born asleep and doesn't wake for fifteen years; smoke rises from grandfather's pipe years after he's buried; a midwife who attends every village birth, never seeming to ageAlma chronicles the dreams and desires her foremothers sacrificed over one hundred years of harvests.
A hypnotic mix of laconic wit and shimmering magic, Spoil the Harvest is a masterwork of emotional precision that asks what it means for a child to reckon with the forces of history, and for a young woman to inherit an ending.
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