by Christoph Hein · METAILIE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9791022608381
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«L'Ombre d'un père» is the novel by German writer Christoph Hein, published by Métailié in paperback (400 pages, in French).
Konstantin never knew his father, a notorious Nazi and war criminal. To escape that legacy, he changes his identity, leaves his country, and seeks refuge in the Foreign Legion, but on returning to the GDR a file on his origins still threatens him. The novel thus spans sixty years of German history and reflects on memory and identity.
Novel originally published in German under the title «Glückskind mit Vater» and translated into French by Nicole Bary; it received the prize for best foreign book in 2019.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in historical memory, identity, and the consequences of Nazism.
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator. He grew up in the town Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule (EOS) in the GDR, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director. From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation, he became a dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer.
