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Three remarkable people--Bering, the town blacksmith's son; Ambras, a concentration camp survivor; and Lily, a Nazi's daughter--struggle to survive and build new futures for themselves in a Central European town forever marked by the horrors and hardships of World War II. 35,000 first printing.
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Christoph Ransmayr was born in 1954 in Austria. He is the author of two previous novels, The Terrors of Ice and Darkness and The Last World, which was a best-seller in Germany and winner of the Elias Canetti Fellowship and the Franz Kafka Literary Prize. For The Dog King, Ransmayr in 1996 shared with Salman Rushdie Europe's Aristeion Prize. He currently lives and works in a village outside Dublin, Ireland.
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