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Fatherland A Memoir Of War, Conscience And Family Secrets

Af: Burkhard Bilger
Kategori: Biography
Kategori nr.: 9030
Varenr.: 3184968
| Stregkode: 9780008100773
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A New Yorkerstaff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain)‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal A New Yorkerstaff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain)‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalWhat do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold.Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party’s brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country’s crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out.What follows is a literary suspense story: a tale of chance encounters and serendipitous discoveries in villages and dusty archives across Germany and France. Intimate and far-reaching, Fatherland is an extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past century, tracing one family’s path through history’s wreckage.For readers of Bart van Es’s The Cut Out Girl or Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with the Amber Eyes, this is a story of middle lands, torn allegiances and loaded family inheritance.

Detaljer

  • EAN
    9780008100773
  • Vægt
    300 g
  • Disponent
    Direkte titel
  • Forfatter
    Burkhard Bilger
  • Forlag
    William Collins
  • ISBN
    9780008100773
  • Sprog
    Engelsk
  • Sideantal
    336
  • Udgivelsesdato
  • Format
    Paperback
  • Themakode
    DNBH1, BGHA, DNC, DNXM, NHTZ1, NHWR7, JPFQ, JWL, BM, BTM, HBTZ1, HBWQ, JPFQ, JWL, 1DFG, 3JJH
  • Kategori
    Biography
  • Kategori nr
    9030
  • Lev. varenr.
    1501
  • Højde/Dybde (mm)
    25 mm
  • Bredde (mm)
    198 mm
  • Længde (mm)
    128 mm