Searching for Alice
Will be published approx. on 31. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-62897-314-3 (ISBN)
Description
Sehnsucht: the yearning for faraway people or places. When Jonathan graduates from university with a degree in literature his father hands him two gifts: an alarm clock and the chance to work in the family business. But Jonathan has different plans. Leaving behind his eccentric family and stifling German hometown, he embarks on a hitchhiking adventure through Australia in search of Alice, an exchange student he knew back in school who left mysteriously one night without explanation.
This stunning and rich debut novel is a story about coming of age and coming to terms with the past. Searching for Alice explores the lure of the open road and the joys of traversing geographic borders, language barriers, and cultural boundaries.
This stunning and rich debut novel is a story about coming of age and coming to terms with the past. Searching for Alice explores the lure of the open road and the joys of traversing geographic borders, language barriers, and cultural boundaries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62897-314-3 (9781628973143)
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Peter Arnds is the Director of Comparative Literature and Head of Italian at Trinity College Dublin. A native of Germany, he also lived in Kansas, Kabul, and Delhi. He is a member of PEN and has just finished his second novel, Detachment. He is currently working on a collection of short stories entitled The Lost Beauty of Happenstance.