by Siegfried Lenz · Hoffmann und Campe · tapa dura · ISBN 9783455042221
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«Heimatmuseum» is the novel by Siegfried Lenz published by Hoffmann und Campe in hardcover (654 pages, in German).
The novel follows the story of a local history museum in Masuria, East Prussia, and of those who preserve it over some sixty years. The work interweaves the life of a carpet weaver with the customs of a vanished region, memory, flight and uprootedness, up to the exodus of 1945 and the new beginning in Schleswig.
Originally published in 1978, it bears the subtitle «Roman» and corresponds to the first printing (1.-100. Tsd).
For readers of German fiction interested in historical memory, exile and life in East Prussia.
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.
