by Siegfried Lenz · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423083072
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«Der Geist der Mirabelle» is a collection of stories by Siegfried Lenz, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (125 pages, in German).
The stories in this volume take place in Bollerup, a fictional village on the Baltic Sea, and portray with irony and nostalgia rural life, its inhabitants and customs. The everyday intertwines with the extraordinary and often with humor, in a collection that celebrates simple life with human depth.
The subtitle is «Geschichten aus Bollerup»; this edition is from 1996 and the work was originally published in 1975.
Suitable for readers interested in short stories with a rural setting and in twentieth-century German literature.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
