Il romantico paesaggio boschivo della Germania sud-occidentale è lo scenario per la nascita di un'amicizia che perseguiterà il sedicenne Hans Schwarz per il resto della sua vita. Hans è ebreo, figlio di un medico convinto che l'ascesa dei nazisti sia solo "una malattia temporanea" che affligge il suo amato paese. Il nuovo compagno di classe di Hans, Konradin von Hohenfels, è un giovane aristocratico abbagliante la cui madre tiene un ritratto di Hitler sulla sua toletta. Hans è immediatamente attratto da Konradin ed è emozionato quando si forma tra loro uno stretto legame, forgiato da interessi comuni che li distinguono dagli altri ragazzi. Ma la loro lealtà viene presto messa alla prova in modi che non avrebbero potuto immaginare. Tre decenni dopo, dal punto di osservazione di New York City, Hans affronta ancora una volta questo episodio della sua giovinezza che ha plasmato la sua vita, attraverso una sorprendente rivelazione in cui si imbatte per caso. Nella sua storia di amicizia distrutta dalla Storia, Reunion unisce la compressione esplosiva di una favola con la profondità emotiva di un romanzo epico molto più lungo di lui.
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Fred Uhlman (Author)
Fred Uhlman, born in Stuttgart in 1901, claimed that his South-West German homeland of Württemberg, made him a "romantic" for life and formed the essence of his sensibilities as a poet. Understandable since it was also the home of Schiller, Hölderlin, Mörike, Weiland, Uhland, Schlegel, Hegel, Schelling and Herman Hesse. Uhlman's name is not out of place among these, and the beauty of that birthplace illuminates every line of his stunning fictional memoir Reunion. He died in 1985.
Ali Smith (Introducer)
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
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Hardback. Condizione: New. The romantic forested landscape of southwest Germany is the setting for the birth of a friendship that will haunt sixteen-year-old Hans Schwarz for the rest of his life. Hans is Jewish, the son of a doctor who is confident that the rise of the Nazis is only 'a temporary illness' afflicting his beloved country. Hans's new classmate, Konradin von Hohenfels, is a dazzling young aristocrat whose mother keeps a portrait of Hitler on her dressing-table. Hans is immediately drawn to Konradin, and thrilled when a close bond forms between them, forged by common interests that set them apart from the other boys. But their loyalties are soon tested in ways they could not have imagined. Three decades later, from the vantage point of New York City, Hans once again confronts this life-shaping episode from his youth, through a stunning revelation that he stumbles upon by chance. In its story of friendship undone by History, Reunion combines the explosive compression of a fable with the emotional depth of an epic novel many times its length. Codice articolo LU-9781841594088
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