Luck – Novel - Softcover

Hofmann, Gert; Hofmann, Michael

3.77

39 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811216071 ISBN 13: 9780811216074

Publisher: New Directions, 2005

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A heartwrenching tale of a family's dissolution told from a child's crystalline perspective.Luck is the beautiful, bittersweet, and very funny novel about a nuclear family living in a small German townwonderfully translated by Gert Hofmann's son, acclaimed translator and poet Michael Hofmann. It begins and ends on the same day, the "last day" of the narrator's childhood as he prepares to leave home with Father, because Mother is waiting for her new man to arrive, and his sister will stay behind. Or will they really leave? Mother sits in her room, squirting herself with perfume. Father endlessly postpones his packing, hoping for a magical conversation that will mend his marriage. His little sister spits on her new dress, and asks....

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"The emotional center of [Luck] - a father's story recounted by his son - is wonderfully reinforced by the younger Hofmann's attention to his father's work."

Book Description:

'A wonderful book, combining a light touch with underlying pathos, ironic humour with real empathy for the heartbreak of ordinary lives. Read it.' Guardian

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