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(3.5) | 3 | From this tale's very beginning--the birth of the narrator's father in the middle of a bridge party--the reader is plunged headlong into a novel crowded with voices, characters, tragedy, and joy. The disintegration of history and identity in the 20th century is seen through the adventures of one family--half-Jewish Viennese, split apart by the Nazi invasion and sent out into the world. Dispensing with linear narrative, the story loops forwards and back to follow each member on their winding course. Their experiences encompass fraudsters, footballers, fools, and fur coats as the narrative moves from Austria to London and from Canada to the battlefields of Burma. This is a landmark European novel of impressive reach and power whose readership will spread as widely as the family whose story it tells.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 3 mentions » Add other authors (1 possible) Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Eva Menasse | — | primary author | all editions | calculated | Dorfer, Alfred | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ernst, Axel von | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Glavinic, Thomas | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hamann, Sibylle | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Jelinek, Elfriede | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Kapielski, Thomas | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ladurner, Ulrich | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Mayer, Verena | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Stavaric, Michael | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Stermann, Dirk | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Troller, Georg Stefan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Walter, Nikolaus | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bree, Corry van | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed |
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Plot:
Vienna tells the story of a Viennese (half-) Jewish family from the beginning of the 20th century to today. It does so through various anecdotes. The book focusses mostly on the father and the grandfather of the family, chronicling their way through the second world war and how they build their life up again afterwards.
I liked Vienna. It’s well written, with a great sense of humour and it’s so perfectly Viennese, it was a joy to read.
Read more about it at my blog: http://kalafudra.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/vienna-eva-menasse/ ( )