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Item Details
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MARRIED LIFE
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| By: |
David Vogel, Dalya Bilu (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1870015703 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781870015707 |
| Publisher: |
PETER HALBAN PUBLISHERS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 1998 |
| Pages: |
486 |
| Translated from: |
Hebrew |
| Description: |
In the Vienna of the 1920s, the tortured marriage of Gurdwell (a Jewish intellectual) and Thea (an Austrian baroness), is set against the backdrop of a city whose empire had collapsed during World War I. Social decay is mirrored by the despair and cruelty of their disintegrating marriage. |
| Synopsis: |
A rich and powerful novel, with the protagonists and the historical setting vividly depicted, this title holds it's place in the urban novel genre as a modern classic in a strong European tradition. This novel belongs to the urban novel genre, and is set in the Vienna of the 1920's. The tortuous and humiliating marriage of Gurdwell and Thea is evocatively set against the backdrop of a city which had witnessed the collapse of it's Empire in the 1st world war. Social decay in the external environment of the city is mirrored by despair, cruelty, depravity and disintegration within the marriage, narrated in rich and vivid prose. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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