Landscape in Concrete Format: Paperback

Jakov Lind; translated by Ralph Manning

ISBN 10: 1934824143 / ISBN 13: 9781934824146

Published by Open Letter Books, 2009

Brand New. Seller Inventory # 9781934824146

Synopsis:

Sergeant Gauthier Bachmann is the perfect Nazi soldier. But after a horrifying defeat at Voroshenko, where most of his Eighth Hessian Infantry Regiment was slaughtered in a single instant, Bachmann was declared mentally unfit to serve. Incapable of accepting this judgment, and of returning to his girlfriend and a quiet life as a gold- and silversmith, Bachmann wanders the war-ravaged countryside, trying to find a way to rejoin his regiment, or any regiment, and return to the front. Whilst wandering he is tormented by a series of figures from the underbelly of war.

About the Author:

Jakov Lind was born in Vienna and survived the Second World War by fleeing into Germany, where he disguised himself as a Dutch deckhand. Regarded in his lifetime as a successor to Beckett and Kafka, Lind was posthumously awarded the Theodor Kramer Prize in 2007.

Ralph Manheim was one of the great translators of the twentieth century. He translated Günter Grass, Bertolt Brecht, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hermann Hesse, Peter Handke, and more. In 1982, PEN American Center created an award for translation in his name.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Landscape in Concrete Format: Paperback
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New