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Maja Haderlap Angel Of Oblivion (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Angel of Oblivion
- Publication Name
- Angel Of Oblivion
- Title
- Angel Of Oblivion
- Translator
- Tess Lewis
- Contributor
- Tess Lewis (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0914671464
- EAN
- 9780914671466
- ISBN
- 9780914671466
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 30/08/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 6.8in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Topic
- War & Military, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 11.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 250 Pages
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Haderlap is an accomplished poet, and that lyricism leaves clear traces on this ravishing debut, which won the prestigious Bachmann Prize in 2011. The descriptions are sensual, and the unusual similes and metaphors occasionally change perspective unexpectedly. Angel of Oblivion deals with harrowing subjects - murder, torture, persecution and discrimination of an ethnic minority - in intricate and lyrical prose. The novel tells the story of a family from the Slovenian minority in Austria. The first-person narrator starts off with her childhood memories of rural life, in a community anchored in the past. Yet behind this rural idyll, an unresolved conflict is smouldering. At first, the child wonders about the border to Yugoslavia, which runs not far away from her home. Then gradually the stories that the adults tell at every opportunity start to make sense. All the locals are scarred by the war. Her grandfather, we find out, was a partisan fighting the Nazis from forest hideouts. Her grandmother was arrested and survived Ravensbr ck. As the narrator grows older, she finds out more. Through conversations at family gatherings and long nights talking to her grandmother, she learns that her father was arrested by the Austrian police and tortured - at the age of ten - to extract information on the whereabouts of his father. Her grandmother lost her foster-daughter and many friends and relatives in Ravensbr ck and only escaped the gas chamber by hiding inside the camp itself. The narrator begins to notice the frequent suicides and violent deaths in her home region, and she develops an eye for how the Slovenians are treated by the majority of German-speaking Austrians. As an adult, the narrator becomes politicised and openly criticises the way in which Austria deals with the war and its own Nazi past. In the closing section, she visits Ravensbr ck and finds it strangely lifeless - realising that her personal memories of her grandmother are stronger. Illuminating an almost forgotten chapter of European history and the European present, the book deals with family dynamics scarred by war and torture - a dominant grandmother, a long-suffering mother, a violent father who loves his children but is impossible to live with. And interwoven with this is compelling reflection on storytelling- the narrator hoping to rid herself of the emotional burden of her past and to tell stories on behalf of those who cannot.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
0914671464
ISBN-13
9780914671466
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219126297
Product Key Features
Book Title
Angel of Oblivion
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
250 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pt2668.A27372
Reviews
"Searingly lyrical...Haderlap's is a significant achievement, hopefully a herald of more to come. An arresting evocation of memory, community, and suffering." -- Kirkus Reviews "Haderlap plunges readers into a morass of European history..." -- Publishers Weekly " Angel of Oblivion is a beautifully poetic novel about a young girl navigating the treacherous terrain between two hostile communities and two extremely burdened languages: Slovenian as a language of heroic resistance and continued humiliations suffered, and German, a way out of her stifling rural upbringing but also the language of the camps, which her Grandmother barely survived and many family members didn't." -- Festival Neue Literatur "[A] painstaking and emotional account of the Slovenian-speaking minority in Austria during and after World War II." -- Abby Sheaffer, ChicagoNow "Haderlap's novel seems to transcend the boundaries between languages and histories." -- Iga Nowicz, The Glossa "Angel of Oblivion , with its doomed and colourful cast of real-life characters, as well as multiple cruel twists of fate, is a devastating story, never less than wholeheartedly told." -- Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times "Haderlap's novel brings to mind the work of artist Anselm Kiefer ... His paintings evoke the same desolate feeling of a landscape, natural and mental, poisoned by the Holocaust. Though Kiefer's art is influenced by foreign myths and symbols, there is that same idea that Maja Haderlap confronts in Angel of Oblivion : that even the generation born after the fall of the Third Reich is affected by its legacy." -- Devan Brettkelly, ZYZZYVA "Haderlap delivers a powerful and affecting story about memory, identity and wartime persecution and retaliation. Inspired by the experiences of Haderlap's family and other Carinthian Slovenes (the Slovenian-speaking minority in southern Austria), Angel of Oblivion offers a compelling character study and shines a necessary light on a small enclave and less-well known chapter of 20th-century European history...Tess Lewis has done a fine job of translating Haderlap's lucid and lyrical prose." -- The National (UAE) "Angel of Oblivion is a continuous, plunging attempt to express the disorderly but urgent moment of daring to master the unmasterable. There is nothing so crass here as an 'arc' or a redemptive release. The reader is on the hook until the end - at which point the narrative's underlying premises shimmer." -- Ron Slate, On the Seawall (blog) "Impressive and moving" - Die Zeit "A heart-wrenching story" - Peter Handke "Haderlap writes in a clear yet poetic tone, in which time is a 'serene glacier' that crushes everything, all that the young protagonist at first finds wonderful and unchangeable, in its path." - Der Spiegel "The strength of Haderlap's novel is that it stretches far back in time, in order to make the present recognisable." - Paul Jandl "By telling her grandmother's story, the narrator finds her own, unmistakeable language, which speaks against the general urge to forget." - Deutschlandradio, "Impressive and moving" - Die Zeit "A heart-wrenching story" - Peter Handke "Haderlap writes in a clear yet poetic tone, in which time is a 'serene glacier' that crushes everything, all that the young protagonist at first finds wonderful and unchangeable, in its path." - Der Spiegel "The strength of Haderlap's novel is that it stretches far back in time, in order to make the present recognisable." - Paul Jandl "By telling her grandmother's story, the narrator finds her own, unmistakeable language, which speaks against the general urge to forget." - Deutschlandradio
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2016-017961
Dewey Decimal
833.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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