9780811215145
Morenga
Uwe Timm; Breon Mitchell
ISBN 13: 9780811215145
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
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"The thickness of detail and mastered research are...efficiently harnessed to Timm's theme: the devastating consequences of collisions between what are conventionally called civilization and primitivism. An intermittently slow read, but an important early work in the career of one of the best living German writers."
Kirkus, 01/15/2003
Review:"[Timm's] fragmentary approach has great cumulative moral power, making us consider all sides of the story without forgetting that there were victims who deserve some remembrance. Whether MORENGA is entirely successful in literary terms is another matter: a lack of deep characterization...makes it quite difficult to make sense of. Yet that seems exactly the point, which is why MORENGA is so important. In the glare of genocide, everything else, including novelistic conventions..., comes to seem absurd....[S]ense alone is not enough for survival, and that is the haunting, disconcerting lesson of MORENGA. Like the Germans, Timm's novel takes few prisoners--and is all the more credible for it."
Giles Foden, New York Times Book Review, 04/20/2003
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Book Description: A New Directions Book, 2003. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Pages unmarked, binding tight. Dust jacket has minimal shelf wear. overall copy is in very good condition. 2003 Hard Cover. "An exciting historical novel set in the early 20th Century, about a black African leader and a bloody civil war in German-occupied Southwest Africa. Morenga, an early novel by Uwe Timm (Headhunter, The Invention of Curried Sausage), engages the mind on many levelsâ€"historical, political, human. Set in German South West Africa in the first decade of the 20th century, it recounts the conflict between the colonial German Empire and the rebellious Africans of the Hottentot and Herero tribes led by the legendary Morenga. A daring and brilliant military tactician referred to as "the Herero bastard," he was fluent in several languages and by all reports a man of compassion, intelligence, and integrity leading his people towards freedom. Even though his revolt is suppressed and by the novel's end he is hunted down and killed, his importance as one of Africa's historic figures is assured. Morenga has a fascinating story and Timm tells it with an ingenious mix of fact and fiction. Recounted through the eyes of Gottschalk, an engaging fictional military veterinarian, the narrative blends quotations from actual historic sources with gripping accounts of everyday life and military excursions. As he has repeatedly shown himself to be, Timm is a master storyteller, and his imagined scenes and characters are as real as the factual material he weaves into the story. The parallels between past events and later German history with its notions of the Untermensch (subhuman) and racial inferiority are subtly brought to mind while significant philosophical, political, and human issues are at play. Morenga is an intriguing novel of scope and significance and it has been well served by Breon Mitchell's fine translation. ". Bookseller Inventory # 1536745 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: New Directions Publishing Corporation March 2003, New York, 2003. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches. Book Description: New Directions Publishing Corp,NY. 2003. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardbound with dust jacket in mylar. Pages are clean, no markings from previous owners. Boards are clean and square. Binding is tight.Text block is clean. DJ is clean, bright, unmarked and unprice clipped. Gift quality. Bookseller Inventory # 60228 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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