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Synopsis
From the very beginning - the birth of the narrator's father in the middle of a bridge party - the reader is plunged headlong into the world of Vienna, a novel crowded with voices, characters, tragedy and joy.
The disintegration of history and indentity in the twentieth century is seen through the adventures of one family - half-Jewish Viennese, split apart by the Nazi invasion and sent out into the world. Dispensing with linear narrative, the story loops forwards and back to follow each member on their winding course. Their experiences encompass fraudsters, footballers, fools and fur coats as the narrative moves from Austria to London, from Canada to the battlefields of Burma.
This is a landmark European novel of impressive reach and power whose readership will spread as widely as the family whose story it tells. It introduces in Eva Menasse an intimate chronicle of human experience and an unashamedly gleeful storyteller. Her cast of entrancing characters and unexpected events shows us imperceptibly the formation and disintegration of family history and identity.
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"For this story of a half-Jewish, half-German clan Eve Menasse eschews linear narrative in favour of tales about the different members that weave into one another in a manner characteristic of shared family remembrance. And what characters they are.... the mixture is enjoyably leavened with black humour." (RACHAEL HORE THE GUARDIAN )
"Vienna by Eva Menasse is a disputatious saga that tracks the trials and tribulations of a Jewish-Austrian family during the 20th century." (THE OBSERVER )
"set in a vividly imagined bourgeois Vienna, with it's bridge parties, tennis clubs, and an everyday anti-Semitism that's shocking in its casualness." (TIME OUT )
"a remarkable achievement... the rewards are many and various." (BARRY FORSHAW THE INDEPENDENT )
"Just when you thought there was nothing new to write about the Jewish experience during the Second World War comes a novel that turns convention on its head... Menasse teases out this generational paradox in a clever novel full of gentle humour, unpredictable twists and memorable characters." (DAILY TELEGRAPH )
"delightfully told... surprising, funny and tragic.. a character-led story fully of sparkling vignettes" (YORKSHIRE EVENING POST )
"Vienna's early sections show the diverse nature of this adventure for these forced migrants... Eva Menasse's tone is often comic, but her theme is serious." (TLS )
"a droll but unsettling take on the city's monster shadowed history, told through the escapades of a saltily eccentric part-Jewish clan." (BOYD TONKIN THE INDEPENDENT )
Book Description
Sparkling and panoramic novel of three generations of family life in Vienna and England.
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0753821729
- ISBN 13 9780753821725
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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