by Alan Hollinghurst · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596118847
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«Die Schwimmbad-Bibliothek» is the novel by Alan Hollinghurst published by Fischer Taschenbuch in paperback (1994), in German.
In the London of 1983, the young gay aristocrat William Beckwith moves through the city's homosexual subculture: clubs, swimming pools, bars and movie theaters. After saving Lord Nantwich's life in a public restroom, William ends up writing the memoirs of the elderly former colonial official; his diaries reveal a network of forbidden erotic relationships.
The original novel, «The Swimming-Pool Library», was published in 1988 and received the Lambda Literary, Stonewall Book and Somerset Maugham awards. The German translation is by Eike Schönfeld.
For readers of British fiction and literary fiction interested in LGBTQ+ stories.
Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.
