The Blind Side of the Heart - SIGNED

Franck, Julia

ISBN 10: 1846552125 / ISBN 13: 9781846552120

Published by Harvill Secker, 2009

About this Item

1st edition 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page with no other inscriptions. Book and dustjacket both in fine condition. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Am happy to supply scans.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1667744278300

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Blind Side of the Heart - SIGNED
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846552125
• ISBN 13: 9781846552120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing West in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns.

Many years earlier, Helene and her sister Martha's childhood in rural Germany is abruptly ended by the outbreak of the First World War. Her father, sent to the eastern front, comes home only to die. Their Jewish mother withdraws from the hostility of her surroundings into a state of mental confusion. Helene calls the condition blindness of the heart, and fears the growing coldness of her mother, who hardly seems to notice her daughters any more.

The Blind Side of the Heart tells of two World Wars, of hope, loneliness and love, and of a life lived in terrible times. It is a great family novel, a powerful portrayal of an era, and the story of a fascinating woman.

About the Author

Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. She studied the anthropology of Native Americans, philosophy, and German language and literature at the Free University of Berlin. The Blind Side of the Heart won the German Book Prize, Germany's most prestigious literary award. She lives in Berlin.