Komotau, the Czech Republic, late summer, 1945. Four
women-seventy-year-old Johanna, her two daughters Hanna and Maria,
and Hanna's daughter Anna-are ordered by the new Czech authorities
to leave their homes and assemble with other Germans at the local
train station. They are given thirty minutes-the "wild expulsions"
of Sudeten Germans have begun. But where is Anna? Witnessing the
revenge lynching of SS and suspected collaborators on her walk
home, she arrives in Komotau to find her family gone. The trek
takes the older women via Munich, then Dresden and Magdeburg, to an
outpost in the far northwest of the Soviet zone where they settle
as farm laborers. Once united again, their hope of one day
returning to the heimat-homeland-is both a source of strength and a
burden, choking attachments to new surroundings and neighbors. This
conflict will prove to be the story of their lives, as well as both
the joy and ruin of Anna's son. A tale of four generations told in
Reinhard Jirgl's unique and subversively expressive idiom, The
Unfinished plays out between the ruins of Nazi Germany and the rise
and fall of communist East Germany, the birth of the Berlin
Republic, and the shadow of a new millennium.
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The German List |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
First published: |
2020 |
Authors: |
Reinhard Jirgl
|
Translators: |
Iain Galbraith
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
276 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-735-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-85742-735-0 |
Barcode: |
9780857427359 |
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