by Jess Walter · Heyne Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783453415898
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«Schöne Ruinen» is Jess Walter's novel published by Heyne Verlag in paperback (463 pages, in German).
The story alternates between 1962, when a young American actress arrives in a small town on the Italian coast seeking refuge, and present-day Hollywood, where a production assistant receives a visit from an elderly man looking for that actress. Love, loss, and the passage of time intertwine in this novel.
Original work «Beautiful Ruins», published in 2012; translation by Friedrich Mader. Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award 2012.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, with a love story and a plot set in two eras.
Jess Walter is an American author of fiction and non-fiction. He has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2006.
