Gaglow
by Esther Freud
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Sarah is already in her late twenties with an acting career in London and a baby on the way when she learns from her father about Gaglow, his family's grand East German country estate that was seized before the war. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the estate will now come back to them. Sarah attempts to solicit from her father all he knows about Gaglow: the three lucky sisters, Bina, Martha, and Eva; their masterly governess, Fraulein Schulze; their father, Wolf Belgard, a prosperous show more Jewish grain dealer; their mother, Marianna, a "vulgar woman" whose children privately mocked her; and their older brother, Emanuel, wretched from the family to serve his country. Alternating between Sarah's life and her grandmother's childhood during the First World War, Summer at Gaglow unites four generations of an extraordinary family across the vast reaches of silence, place, loss, and time. show lessTags
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Een echt Esther Freud boek, hoewel de moeder dit keer geen hippie is. De dochters in het boek hebben een hekel aan hun moeder, onder invloed van hun gouvernante Schu-Schu. Het verhaal speelt zich voor een groot deel af in Gaglow, het zomerhuis van de familie. De andere verhaallijn speelt twee of drie generaties later, Lucian Freud schildert zijn dochter en kleinzoon. Heel mooi is hoe het jongetje, Sonny, beschreven wordt, heel zinnelijk.fijn vakantieboek.
2 and 1/2 stars.
Set in pre-war WWI with Sarah's grandmother, and alternating with Sarah's life in London, she learns from her father about Gaglow, his family's grand East German country estate that was seized before the war. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the estate will now come back to them. She tries to learn all about her father's three sisters.
There's no delineation between eras, or generations etc., so one chapter was when the three daughters, Bina (16), Martha (14?) and Eva were young (Eva the youngest at 11) and the next chapter Sarah is meeting her grandmother Eva when she was an old woman with her father Michael and then back to the past. It mostly stays in the past in the later chapters it seems.
I don't want to call this show more book boring, but to me it wasn't very interesting -- past or present. I skimmed through the last 40 pages.
I must have looked at this title who knows how many times and I kept seeing Glasglow like Scotland and I kept saying to myself, but it's set in Germany not Scotland. How your eyes can trick you into seeing one thing when it says another. show less
Set in pre-war WWI with Sarah's grandmother, and alternating with Sarah's life in London, she learns from her father about Gaglow, his family's grand East German country estate that was seized before the war. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the estate will now come back to them. She tries to learn all about her father's three sisters.
There's no delineation between eras, or generations etc., so one chapter was when the three daughters, Bina (16), Martha (14?) and Eva were young (Eva the youngest at 11) and the next chapter Sarah is meeting her grandmother Eva when she was an old woman with her father Michael and then back to the past. It mostly stays in the past in the later chapters it seems.
I don't want to call this show more book boring, but to me it wasn't very interesting -- past or present. I skimmed through the last 40 pages.
I must have looked at this title who knows how many times and I kept seeing Glasglow like Scotland and I kept saying to myself, but it's set in Germany not Scotland. How your eyes can trick you into seeing one thing when it says another. show less
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Sarah is already in het late twenties with an acting career in London and a baby on the way when she lerans form her father about Gaglow, his family's grand East German country estate that was seized before the war. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the estate will come back to them.
Sarah attempts to solicit from her father all het knows about Gaglow: the three lucky sisters: Bina, Martha and Eva, their masterly governess, Fraulein Schulze, their father, Wolf Belgard, a prosperous Jewish grain dealer, their mother, Marianna, a 'vulgar woman' whose children provately mocked her, and their older brother Emanuel, wretched from the family to serve his country.
Alternating between Sarah's life and her grandmother's childhood during the first show more world war, Summer in Gaglow unites four generations of an extraordinary family across the vast reaches of silence, place, loss and time.
Familiegeschiedenis: Duitse Joden, WOI, appartement in Berlijn, landgoed in het voormalige Oost-duitsland
De meisjes Bina, Martha en Eva en de zoon Emmanuel genieten van het landelijk leven op Gaglow met zijn veertien kamers, zijn windhonden, zijn ijshuisje, zijn park én de gouvernante Schu-Schu.
Kronologies zijn er twe nivo's: Er is Londen met de vader-schilder (Lucian Freud), de zoon van Eva en de dochter,het ik-personage in de jaren 80. Er is het leven in het Duitsland van weleer op het landgoed Gaglow, waar door de ogen van Eva een mooie schets gemaakt wordt van het gezinsleven, het buitenleven met de geuren van hooi en bloemen, de aanhankelijkheid onderling en de dagdromerijen van het meisje zelf. De hedendaagse fragmenten zijn in tegenstellin daarmee erg zwak en vaak inhoudsloos. show less
Sarah attempts to solicit from her father all het knows about Gaglow: the three lucky sisters: Bina, Martha and Eva, their masterly governess, Fraulein Schulze, their father, Wolf Belgard, a prosperous Jewish grain dealer, their mother, Marianna, a 'vulgar woman' whose children provately mocked her, and their older brother Emanuel, wretched from the family to serve his country.
Alternating between Sarah's life and her grandmother's childhood during the first show more world war, Summer in Gaglow unites four generations of an extraordinary family across the vast reaches of silence, place, loss and time.
Familiegeschiedenis: Duitse Joden, WOI, appartement in Berlijn, landgoed in het voormalige Oost-duitsland
De meisjes Bina, Martha en Eva en de zoon Emmanuel genieten van het landelijk leven op Gaglow met zijn veertien kamers, zijn windhonden, zijn ijshuisje, zijn park én de gouvernante Schu-Schu.
Kronologies zijn er twe nivo's: Er is Londen met de vader-schilder (Lucian Freud), de zoon van Eva en de dochter,het ik-personage in de jaren 80. Er is het leven in het Duitsland van weleer op het landgoed Gaglow, waar door de ogen van Eva een mooie schets gemaakt wordt van het gezinsleven, het buitenleven met de geuren van hooi en bloemen, de aanhankelijkheid onderling en de dagdromerijen van het meisje zelf. De hedendaagse fragmenten zijn in tegenstellin daarmee erg zwak en vaak inhoudsloos. show less
Dec 28, 2009Dutch
Afwisselend in de Eerste Wereldoorlog in Duitsland en eind jaren '90 van de 20e eeuw in Londen spelende roman. Eind 20e eeuw is er Sarah, een werkloze actrice en kersverse alleenstaande moeder, die van haar vader verhalen hoort over Gaglow, het grote Duitse landgoed dat voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog aan haar vaders joodse familie toebehoorde en dat nu zal worden teruggegeven. In de tweede, belangrijkste verhaallijn is er de geschiedenis van drie joodse zusjes (Sarah is de kleindochter van de jongste), hun broer die soldaat is, hun ouders en hun intrigante van een gouvernante, die wonen op Gaglow in de periode rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Dec 22, 2017Dutch
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- Canonical title*
- Sommer in Gaglow
- Original title
- Gaglow
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters*
- Sarah; Michael Linder; Eva Belgard
- Important places*
- London, England, Grossbritannien; Gaglow, Brandenburg, Deutschland
- Dedication*
- Für Xandra und Alexandra
- First words*
- Die Belgard-Mädchen hegten keine Bewunderung für ihre Mutter.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Sarah", rief Mike wieder, "wir brauchen dich", und ich sprang auf und rannte durch das hohe Gras auf das Haus zu.
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