The Room
(2016)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd : Made available through hoopla, 2016
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781911420750 (electronic bk.) MWT11658412, 1911420755 (electronic bk.) 11658412
LANGUAGE
English
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Knausgaard meets East Germany in a brilliantly ironic memoir-cum-novel Uncle J was a forceps delivery, which explains why he is not really all there. Still a child in many ways, he has grown older all the same. Now he is madly in love, with a Volkswagen Type 3 Variant. He is a man with no sense of history and little attachment to the real world, other than an armchair enthusiasm for mountain climbing, a passion for Wehrmacht tanks, and a keen interest in Frankfurt's prostitutes. Uncle J is a person to whom the concept of guilt just does not apply. He doesn't grasp at life's chances, because he can't. Meanwhile, the world around him seems mysteriously and unerringly busy. But to what end? The Room is a dazzling fictional meditation on Andreas Maier's family, the cruel absurdities of small-town life, and the euphoria that surrounded 'progress' in the 1960s. It is also a stirring exploration of Germany in the post-war years, a reflection on time and civilisation, and on human dignity and how it can be preserved

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