Dog King

Language: English

Published by Chatto & Windus, 1997

0701166274 / 9780701166274

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Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Hardcover. Here's some revisionist history for World War II has ended, but only in the West. The war in the Pacific will drag on for another 20 years before the atomic bomb is finally dropped at Hiroshima; in Germany, instead of the Marshall Plan, the victorious Allies have instituted a policy based on vengeance. The country has been completely factories are torn down, roads destroyed, and the economy shattered. People live hardscrabble existences, scraping a living from the soil if they are honest, preying on others if they are not. Throughout the countryside, granite memorials have been erected as constant reminders of the Germans' transgressions, and long lines of repentant citizens pray before them for forgiveness that never comes. Such is the bleak landscape of German author Christoph Ransmayr's third novel, The Dog King . Ransmayr constructs his dystopian tale around three Bering, a young man who lives near the quarry that provides the special green granite for the memorials; Ambras, the crippled master of the quarry; and Lily, known as "the Brazilian" for her attempt to seek refuge in South America. Having assembled his cast, Ransmayr sends them on a journey from the horrors of postwar Germany to the jungles of Brazil in search of more green granite. What happens there makes for a sensational ending to a very disturbing tale.…

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Title
Dog King
Author
Christopher Ransmayer
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Publication year
1997
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0701166274
ISBN 13
9780701166274
Edition
First Edition.
Item weight
1.32 pounds

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Housing Works Used Book Cafe is an independent open bookstore in New York City that presents great used, new and antiquarian books, good coffee, the opportunity to hear from many of the best writers and performers in America and the chance to make a difference in the fight against AIDS and Homelessness, in New York City and the world. We are a non-profit bookstore relying on volunteers to help run the store. Housing Works provides housing, health care, job training and advocacy for people living with HIV and AIDS. Fighting AIDS One Book At A Time…

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