Night Duty
by Melitta Breznik
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A doctor's literary autopsy of her unhappy family in Austria. As she cares for her dying father, she describes his alcoholic violence, her mother's attempt at suicide and her own unhappy childhood--all with the clinical eye of her profession. A first novel by a Swiss psychiatrist.Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Nachtdienst
- Original title
- Nachtdienst
- Original publication date
- 1995
- Important places*
- Österreich
- First words*
- An den weissen verfliesten Wänden der Obduktionskammer bricht sich das Geräusch des aus der Brause kommenden Wasserstrahls, der vom Gehilfen in schnellen kurzen Schwüngen über dem blutverschmierten Korkbrett hin- und herb... (show all)ewegt wird, wo zuvor die Organe des alten eingefallenen Körpers seziert wurden.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Der alte Photoapparat, ich habe vergessen, ihn aus der Schachtel zu räumen, mit der gerade einer der Lumpenstöberer davongeht, ich rufe ihm nicht nach, es ist zu spät.
- Original language*
- Deutsch
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Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
- DDC/MDS
- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
- LCC
- PT2662 .R776 .N2913 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
