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This novella, based on the life of the most shadowy and mysterious of Queen Victoria's prime ministers, is about war, politics and love. It portrays George Gordon, cousin to Lord Byron, as the only prime minister between Wellington and Churchill to have experienced war at first hand.
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The narrator of Timm's story is a writer who simply can't get started on his next book. So he accepts a commission to write an article about potatoes. He has some interest in the subject because of an uncle who could, remarkably, from taste alone, differentiate one species of potato from another. Since it turns out that one of the authorities on the subject worked in East Berlin, our hero takes off to do some research. Rushing between the East and West sectors of the now-united city the narrator becomes involved in a series of madcap adventures: odd, sometimes threatening encounters with all sorts of people, and strange entanglements.
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Uwe Timm was born in Hamburg, Germany. His first novel, Hot Summer, was published in 1974. New Directions publishes five of his novels, including the German best selling, The Invention of Curried Sausage, and the award winning, Morenga. After apprenticing as a furrier, Timm studied philosophy and philology in Paris and Munich. He is the 1989 winner of the Munich Literary Prize. He has been called an "extraordinary story teller" (The New Yorker) and "one of the best living German Writers" (Kirkus Reviews).
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0434002003
- ISBN 13 9780434002009
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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