The Way to Eden - Hardcover
A German novelist views small-town America with fresh eyes and provides a refreshing yet challenging read.
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"A place to slip out of the world? -- Yes, it exists. Just read Gerhard Köpf's newest novel and you will have a good chance of getting to Eden. Eden lies in Vermont, U.S.A., far away from the German cabinet of horrors. In Eden you can go hunting and fishing. There Indian Summer is burning maples under a boundless blue sky; the cemetery is called Nomad's Rest, and the dead are granted 'eternal reading.'It all started with Grandmother, who fell in love with the American officer John Fulton Rea from Eden, VT, who left her in the lurch and returned to his homeland. Grandmother's wish to settle down in Eden at last was not granted. So it remains for her grandson, the narrator, to take his grandmother to Eden posthumously. With the urn containing her ashes in his luggage, he travels to all the places she once wanted to stop over at on her way, all the way to Eden, where he strews her ashes over the dead colonel's grave.With his grandmother's savings he buys the colonel's house; his neighbor is the latter's uncle, and his faithful roommate is malaria, which he... MITTELBAYERISCHE ZEITUNG
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Dr. James J. Scannell is Vice President for Enrollments, Placement, Alumni Relations and Development at the University of Rochester.
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- PublisherCamden House
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1571132759
- ISBN 13 9781571132758
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages150
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 150 pages. A German novelist views small-town America with fr esh eyes and provides a refreshing yet challenging read. Editori al Reviews Review A place to slip out of the world? -- Yes, it e xists. Just read Gerhard Köpf's newest novel and you will have a good chance of getting to Eden. Eden lies in Vermont, U.S.A., far away from the German cabinet of horrors. In Eden you can go hunt ing and fishing. There Indian Summer is burning maples under a bo undless blue sky; the cemetery is called Nomad's Rest, and the de ad are granted 'eternal reading.'It all started with Grandmother, who fell in love with the American officer John Fulton Rea from Eden, VT, who left her in the lurch and returned to his homeland. Grandmother's wish to settle down in Eden at last was not grante d. So it remains for her grandson, the narrator, to take his gran dmother to Eden posthumously. With the urn containing her ashes i n his luggage, he travels to all the places she once wanted to st op over at on her way, all the way to Eden, where he strews her a shes over the dead colonel's grave.With his grandmother's savings he buys the colonel's house; his neighbor is the latter's uncle, and his faithful roommate is malaria, which he. MITTELBAYERISC HE ZEITUNG. Seller Inventory # 980x
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