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Loading... Die Geschichte Von Hern Sommer (original 1991; edition 1991)by Patrick Suskind
Work InformationThe Story of Mr. Sommer by Patrick Süskind (1991)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Nos dias que correm dificilmente encontraremos um Sr. Sommer mas com certeza encontraremos pessoas que continuam a isolar-se. ( ) This story is told by a man remembering his childhood in a small village in Germany in the years following the Second World War and through the early years of the German economic miracle. He tells us about his walks to school, his piano lessons, his climbing on trees but also of the omnipresent figure of Mr Sommer, frantically and aimlessly walking in all weather across the countryside. Although this is a book for children, I found the book deals with serious subjects: the aftermath of the war and trauma. Perhaps Mr Sommer, arriving soon after the war in the village then disappearing in the lake a few seasons later, tells of those Germans who were broken by the war and the silence that surrounded their pain. no reviews | add a review
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"In an altogether unexpected change of pace from the evil flamboyance of his phenomenal Perfume and the Kafkaesque paranoia of The Pigeon, the brilliant German writer Patrick Suskind joins forces with Sempe, the illustrator of New Yorker magazine fame, to bring us a haunting and deceptively simple tale of childhood, innocence lost, and memory as seen in flashback through the eyes of a man now middle-aged." "Mr. Summer's Story is, in fact, the story of the child whose path he crosses only fleetingly but whose life - otherwise ordinary in every way - is forever changed by those few moments in time. At the story's conclusion, the enigmatic Mr. Summer, whose first name no one seems to know, who wanders silently through the countryside, and who is heard to utter but one sentence in the entire novel, appears to us as a man both noble and tragic, whose ultimate disappearance remains a mystery - and a secret - to all but the little boy he unknowingly touched long ago." "A timeless and universal fable for children and adults alike."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)833.914Literature German literature and literatures of related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1900-1990 1945-1990LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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