Vienna - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3442732530 ISBN 13: 9783442732531

Publisher: Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH

Synopsis

Ein großer Familienroman, der anekdotisch, lebendig und eindringlich vom Geschick eines jüdischen Familienclans in Wien erzählt. Sei es Königsbee, der noch jede Redewendung verballhornt hat, sei es die Mutter, die überm Kartenspiel beinahe die Geburt des Sohnes versäumt - die Lebensfäden der verschiedensten Menschen werden über räumliche Trennung hinweg, durch die Schrecken der Naziherrschaft und über die Familienstreitereien nach dem Krieg zusammengeführt im charmanten Wien der Kaffeehäuser.

About this title

About the Author

Eva Menasse was born in 1970 in Vienna. She had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague to Berlin.

Review

"For this story of a half-Jewish, half-German clan Eve Menasse eschews linear narrative in favour of tales about the different members that weave into one another in a manner characteristic of shared family remembrance. And what characters they are... the mixture is enjoyably leavened with black humour." -- RACHAEL HORE THE GUARDIAN "Vienna by Eva Menasse is a disputatious saga that tracks the trials and tribulations of a Jewish-Austrian family during the 20th century." THE OBSERVER "set in a vividly imagined bourgeois Vienna, with it's bridge parties, tennis clubs, and an everyday anti-Semitism that's shocking in its casualness." TIME OUT "a remarkable achievement... the rewards are many and various." -- BARRY FORSHAW THE INDEPENDENT "Just when you thought there was nothing new to write about the Jewish experience during the Second World War comes a novel that turns convention on its head... Menasse teases out this generational paradox in a clever novel full of gentle humour, unpredictable twists and memorable characters." DAILY TELEGRAPH "delightfully told... surprising, funny and tragic. a character-led story fully of sparkling vignettes" YORKSHIRE EVENING POST "Vienna's early sections show the diverse nature of this adventure for these forced migrants... Eva Menasse's tone is often comic, but her theme is serious." TLS "a droll but unsettling take on the city's monster shadowed history, told through the escapades of a saltily eccentric part-Jewish clan." -- BOYD TONKIN THE INDEPENDENT

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH
• ISBN 10: 3442732530
• ISBN 13: 9783442732531
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: German