The Pollen Room
by Zoë Jenny
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In the half-lit work of a broken home, Jo grows up afraid of the shadows and desperate for company. By age seventeen, she has learned to build her own happiness, and her fantasies of love fuel perilous experiments with drugs and sex, and a search for a mother who abandoned her years earlier. Told in the spare, haunting language of an unhappy childhood, "The Pollen Room" is a universal story of love and disillusionment. Ultimately, it is Jo's revelation about her mother's own demons that show more brings a bittersweet reconciliation of childhood dreams and adult reality. "The Pollen Room" catapulted its twenty-three-year-old author to international fame upon its publication in Europe. Told with powerful insight and maturity, the novel is a testament to our times. show lessTags
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- The Pollen Room
- Original title
- Das Blütenstaubzimmer
- Original publication date
- 1997
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
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- PT2670 .E49 .B5813 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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