by Eva Menasse · Btb Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442732531
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«Vienna» is Eva Menasse's family novel, published by Btb Verlag in paperback (428 pages, in German).
Vienna portrays a Viennese Jewish family clan throughout the twentieth century. With anecdotes and diverse voices, the novel traverses National Socialism, the war, dispersal, and postwar disputes, and depicts everyday life between cafés and memories. Menasse explores memory, identity, and the bonds that unite several generations.
The novel was originally published in 2005. This 2007 paperback edition belongs to the btb Taschenbücher series (no. 73253).
For readers of family sagas and historical fiction, with an interest in memory, identity, and Jewish life in twentieth-century Austria.
Eva Menasse is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin. She left the paper to write her first novel, Vienna, and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author.
