Hinterland by Arno Geiger - ISBN: 9781529003192
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Wounded soldier finds hope and love amidst war’s fading light.
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    336 pages

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    30 January 2024

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Summary

The year is 1944 and Veit Kolbe, a young German soldier, injured fighting in Russia, is recovering in a small village below Drachenwand mountain in Austria. Here he meets Margot and Margarete, two young women who share his hope that sometime, sooner or later, life will begin again.

The war is lost but how long will it take before it finally comes to its end? Arno Geiger’s Hinterland, translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch, tells of Veit’s nightmares and the strangely normal life …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529003192
ISBN-10:1529003199
Author:Arno Geiger, Jamie Bulloch
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:30 January 2024
Weight:236g
Dimensions:24mm x 129mm x 196mm
Audience Age:18
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Hinterland by Arno Geiger - ISBN: 9781529003192
129 × 196 mm
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Critics Review

A great anti-war novel, in the middle of which a love story … develops, full of tenderness - as around it the world shatters … This impressive, subtle book * Der Spiegel *
A profound, distinctive and timeless investigation into what concerns everyone of us: aging and illness, home and family. A meditation on the things we find hard to deal with. A great work of literature about what makes life worth living no matter what * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *
A book about the search for a lost world, a lost home and a character presumed lost, as well as about a rediscovered relationship. A powerful, grown-up, curious, and touchingly delightful book – Die Welt

About The Author

Arno Geiger

Arno Geiger grew up in the Austrian Alps, in a village overlooking Lake Constance. His grandparents were farmers, his father was the local government clerk and his mother a primary school teacher. He studied German and comparative literature at university and his debut novel appeared in 1997. In 2005, he was awarded the inaugural German Book Prize, and his writing has won numerous other prizes. His autobiographical novel The Old King in His Exile was translated into twenty-eight languages and won several literary prizes. He is married and lives in Vienna.

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