
On A Day Like This
A Novel
$24.99
- Paperback
238 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2011
Summary
A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange GardensOn a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor’s visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of him-but who can tell if it is homesickness or wanderlust? Andreas leaves everything behind, sells his Paris apartment; cuts off all social ties; quits his teaching job; and waves goodbye …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590514993 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590514998 |
| Author: | Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann |
| Publisher: | Other Press LLC |
| Imprint: | Other Press Professional |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 238 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 127mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
Peter Stamm
Peter Stammis the author of the novelsThe Sweet Indifference of theWorld,Tothe Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, andAgnes, and the short-story collectionsWe’re FlyingandIn Strange Gardens and Other Stories. His award-winning books have been translated into more than forty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich H lderlin Prize. He lives in Switzerland.Michael Hofmann has translated Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Roth, Patrick S, Herta Mueller, and Franz Kafka. He won the Translators’ Association’s Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice in 1988 for his adaptation of The Double Bass by Patrick S (1987), and in 1993 for his rendering of Wolfgang Koeppen’s Death in Rome (1992). In 1999 he won the PEN/Book of the Month Club Translation Prize for The String of Pearls. His translation of his father’s novel The Film Explainer, by Gert Hofmann, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995. He has written and translated more than 35 books, winning eight awards for his translations and his poetry.
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