| Accident: A Day's News Univ of Chicago Edition Contributor(s): Wolf, Christa (Author), Schwarzbauer, Heike (Translator), Takvorian, Rick (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0226905063 ISBN-13: 9780226905068 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: On a flawless spring day in late April, an East German writer awaits a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery and instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and, above all, the importance of each moment lived. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00066958 |
| Series: Phoenix Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 5.3" W x 7.92" (0.31 lbs) 121 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Russia |
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| Publisher Description: An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wolf, Christa: - Christa Wolf's (1929-2011) other works include the ground-breaking Cassandra, Patterns of Childhood and The Quest for Christa T. She has been awarded many prizes, among them the Buchner Prize of the German Academy of Language and Poetry the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Geschwister Scholl Prize of the city of Munich. |