by Esther Freud · Droemer Knaur · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783426611005
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«Sommer in Gaglow» is Esther Freud's novel, published by Droemer Knaur in paperback (347 pages, in German).
The novel is set in Germany in the summer of 1914, at Gaglow, the Belgard family estate, where the three daughters live with their mother Marianna, their governess, and a soldier brother amid jealousy, secrets, and tensions. In parallel, in London, Sarah tries to reconstruct the family history that her father, a painter, has preferred to forget.
The work, originally published as «Summer at Gaglow» in 1997, was nominated for the Orange Prize and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in 1998.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in pre-First World War Germany and family dynamics.
Esther Freud is a British novelist, known for her autobiographical novel Hideous Kinky (1992). She is the daughter of the painter Lucian Freud.
