by Carson McCullers · n/a · tapa dura · ISBN 9783937793337
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«Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger» is the novel by Carson McCullers, published by Süddeutsche Zeitung Bibliothek in hardcover (352 pages, in German).
Set in an industrial town in Georgia, it follows John Singer, a deaf-mute man around whom several lonely people gather, such as young Mick Kelly, who has musical talent. They all seek a sympathetic ear in him, while Singer also bears his own loneliness and the need to be understood.
It is volume 35 of the SZ-Bibliothek collection, with a translation by Susanna Rademacher. The original, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, appeared in 1940.
For readers of American literary classics and literary fiction, with a portrait of loneliness, empathy, and coexistence in a small community.
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.
