The Blind Side of the Heart

The Blind Side of the Heart

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Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns. This is a tale of hope, loneliness and love, and of a life lived in terrible times. It is a great family novel, a powerful portrayal of an era, and the story of a fascinating woman.Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010.

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Weight 0.304 kg
Dimensions 2.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

432
Publisher

Year Published

2010-7-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099524236
About The Author

Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. She studied the anthropology of Native Americans, philosophy, and German language and literature at the Free University of Berlin. The Blind Side of the Heart won the German Book Prize, Germany's most prestigious literary award. She lives in Berlin.

The opening of Julia Frank's novel is among the most powerful in recent years, a narrative so assured that the reader is gripped…This is a great, big silence-breaker of a novel, a laser beam into the German darkness from a writer who, one feels, has a great deal more to say
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Franck's command of the language of misery and loss is awesome, but so is her gift for describing the warmth of burgeoning life when things are going right

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