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The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero (Paperback)
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The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero (Paperback)
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Loot Price R268
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"This is a beautiful book, a masterpiece of brevity and depth" New
European "This tense novella builds to a final reckoning" The Times
In October 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl arrives in a tiny farming
community in Lower Austria, at some distance from the main theatre
of war. She remembers very little about how she got there, it seems
she has suffered trauma from bombardment. One night a few months
later, a young, emaciated Russian appears, a deserter from forced
labour in the east. He has nothing with him but a canvas roll,
which he guards like a hawk. Their burgeoning friendship is
abruptly interrupted by the arrival of a group of Wehrmacht
soldiers in retreat, who commandeer the farm. Paulus Hochgatterer's
intensely atmospheric, resonant novel is like a painting in itself,
a beautiful observation of small shifts from apathy in a community
not directly affected by the war, but exhausted by it nonetheless;
individual acts of moral bravery which to some extent have the
power to change the course of history. Longlisted for the Austrian
Book Prize 2017, this subtle, evocative novella will appeal to
readers of Hubert Mingarelli's A MEAL IN WINTER and Jenny
Erpenbeck's THE END OF DAYS. Translated from the German by Jamie
Bulloch Jamie Bulloch is the translator of novels by Timur Vermes,
Steven Uhly, F. C. Delius, Daniela Krien, Joerg Fauser, Martin
Suter, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Oliver Bottini. For his
translation of Birgit Vanderbeke's The Mussel Feast he was the
winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize. With the support of the
Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
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