
My Father's Book
Urs Widmer(Author)
Seagull Books London Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 29. March 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-0-85742-527-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this companion to Urs Widmer's novel My Mother's Lover, the narrator is again the son who pieces together the fragments of his parents' stories. Since the age of twelve, Karl, the father, has observed the family tradition of recording his life in a single notebook, but when his book is lost soon after his death, his son resolves to rewrite it. Here, we get to know Karl's friends--a collection of anti-fascist painters and architects known as Group 33. We learn of the early years of Karl's marriage and follow his military service as the Swiss fear a German invasion during World War II, his political activity for the Communist Party, and his brief career as a teacher. Widmer brilliantly combines family history and historical events to tell the story of a man more at home in the world of the imagination than in the real world, a father who grows on the reader, just as he grows on his son.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85742-527-0 (9780857425270)
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Persons
Urs Widmer is co-founder of Verlag der Autoren, an author-owned publishing house focusing on texts related to the performing arts. His other works include My Mother's Lover, also published by Seagull Books. He lives and works in Zurich. Donal McLaughlin specializes in translating Swiss fiction.