The Wall Jumper - Brossura

Schneider, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141187980 ISBN 13: 9780141187983

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2005

Riassunto

Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to live and survive on both sides. There is Robert, teller of barroom anecdotes over beer and vodka, adjusting to a new life in the west; Pommerer, trying to outwit the system in the east; the unnamed narrator, who 'escapes' back-and-forth to collect stories; his beguiling, exiled lover Lena; the three boys who defect to watch Hollywood films; and the man who leaps across the Wall again and again - simply because he cannot help himself.

All are, in their different ways, wall jumpers, trying to lose themselves but still trapped wherever they go. Ultimately, the walls inside their heads prove to be more powerful than any man-made barrier ...

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L'autore:

Peter Schneider was born in Luebeck, Germany, in 1940. He is the author of more than 20 books, including novels, short stories and collections of essays, and his writings have been translated into more than 20 languages. Among those in English are The Wall Jumper (1983), Couplings (1996) and his most recent novel, Eduard's Homecoming (2000). As a journalist, he has contributed to Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Time and Le Monde among many others. He has also written several screenplays. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he is Roth Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University.

Ian McEwan has written two collections of stories, First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets, and ten novels, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, The Daydreamer, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, Atonement and Saturday. He won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

'It will take us longer to tear down the wall in our heads than any wrecking company'

Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to survive on both sides. There is Robert, teller of bar-room anecdotes, adjusting to a new life in the west; Pommerer, trying to outwit the system in the east; the unnamed narrator, who 'escapes' back-and-forth to collect stories; and the man who leaps across the Wall again and again - simply because he cannot help himself. All of them are wall jumpers, trying to lose themselves but, ultimately, still trapped.

'A wonderful novel' Ian McEwan

'Might be the best Wall fiction ever written' Guardian

'The ultimate depiction ... Nothing more need be said' Werner Herzog

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0141187980
• ISBN 13: 9780141187983
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128