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Book Description: Peter Owen, London, 1979. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 0720605296 Jacket condition: VG+. Lodgings in Exile is the central panel of Wolfgang Georg Fischer's triptych of autobiographical novels centred on Austria before and during the Second World War. As in Interiors, the first volume of the series, the author's unique style, a subtle blend of fact and fantasy, produces a highly original portrayal of a piece of recent history. The novel opens in Vienna in 1938, where 'Sailor Boy', the narrator's father, strives to evade the bitter consequences of the Anschluss. In a sequence of 'snapshots'. Wolfgang Fischer brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of the Austrian capital as it is incorporated into Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich. The family-Sailor Boy, his wife and five-year-old son-take refuge at Windenau Castle in Yugoslavia, home of industrial magnate Paul Knapp Jr. There, as Europe slides towards war, they play out the days in a round of party games and impotent political speculation in a last attempt to evade the realities of refugee life. When war comes, Sailor Boy emigrates to England, leaving his wife and the narrator (the 'Nursery Self) to a downward progress through the bedsitters and lodging-houses of Zagreb before their inevitable return to Hitler's Austria. Lodgings in Exile will be welcomed both by those who enjoyed Interiors and by readers new to Fischer's work. Combining wit, insight and acute observation, the author brings a fascinatingly novel perspective to the experience of refugee life. 264 pages. Your order ships by the next business day!. Bookseller Inventory # WB002304

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Book Description: London, Peter Owen, [, 1979. Hardcover. ]. 264p. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. Bookseller Inventory # 17378

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Book Description: Peter Owen, London, 1979. hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Trans: Goodwin, I. (illustrator). Following on from Fischer's "Interiors", this novel forms the second in his autobiographical trilogy set in Austria before and during the Second World War. Book condition: from 1979, the book bears some very slight fraying on some outer edges but is otherwise in presentable condition with strong binding. Bookseller Inventory # 171748

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Book Description: Owen, 1979. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First British Commonwealth Edition.Translated from the German by Inge Goodwin.Language Notes Text: English, German (translation)DJ has chips on three corners and head of spine,is price clipped. Gift inscription on title page by the translator. Bookseller Inventory # 482

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Book Description: London: Peter Owen, 1979, 1979. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Cloth. Very Good/Good +. First UK Edition. Inscribed by the Author. 5" x 7.5". Dust jacket rubbed and craesed plus a closed tear top edge of front panel. On the front endpaper the author has written: TO/ ERIC SHANES/ WITH LOTS OF GOOD WISHES/ FOR ART, LIFE AND BROUCUSI/ ON THE OCCASION OF HIS/ 'APOLLO' INTERVIEW,/ WOLFGANG GEORG FISCHER./ (There follows the author's London address and the date: No vember 22, 1989.) Translated from the German by Inge Goodwin. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 005594

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