by Margaret Forster · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596172238
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«Ich warte darauf, daß etwas geschieht» is the novel by Margaret Forster, published by FISCHER Taschenbuch in paperback (585 pages, in German).
The novel follows a woman born at the beginning of the 20th century through her diary, started at thirteen and written until beyond ninety. Between wars, crises and family life, the protagonist strives with tenacity and courage to achieve small doses of happiness, in a narrative that blurs the boundary between fiction and reality.
Translation from English into German by Roseli and Saskia Bontjes van Beek; original title «Diary of an Ordinary Woman». Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe series, no. 17223.
For readers of contemporary fiction and literary fiction with a female protagonist; addresses family, memory and everyday life in the 20th century.
Margaret Forster was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.
