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A sense of the beginning / Norbert Gstrein ; translated from the German by Julian Evans.
- Title
- A sense of the beginning / Norbert Gstrein ; translated from the German by Julian Evans.
- Author
- Gstrein, Norbert, 1961-
- Publication
- London : MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus Publishing Ltd, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT2667.S77 A64513 2016 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Evans, Julian
- Description
- 313 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- A bomb threat is made at a provincial Austrian village station. But no-one takes it too seriously, not even the police. Then a teacher in the village thinks he recognises his favourite pupil Daniel on a wanted notice in a newspaper. The teacher befriended Daniel when they spent a summer together at his house by the river, but Daniel has been growing increasingly obsessive of late, losing himself in religious and political dogmatism after a trip to Israel. For his teacher, this marks the start of a spiral of introspection and self doubt, reinforced by his inability to feel at home anywhere after spending several years in Istanbul. What's more, he is suddenly swamped by memories of the pivotal moments of his own adolescence, which floor him completely. Was it Daniel's love for Judith and his fascination with an American fire-and-brimstone evangelist who is passing through on his way to Jerusalem or could it have been the complex relationship between the two of them that led the boy astray?
- Uniform Title
- Ahnung vom Anfang. English.
- Alternative Title
- Ahnung vom Anfang.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0857053582
- 9780857053589
- 9781784290368 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 920726910
- SCSB-12504516
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library