Swallow summer / Larissa Boehning ; translated from the German by Lyn Marven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boehning, Larissa, 1971- author.

Standardized Title:

Schwalbensommer. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

German fiction--Translations into English.

German fiction.

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

iii, 140 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[Manchester] : Comma Press, 2016.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

"Each character in Larissa Boehning's debut collection experiences a moment where they're forced to confront how differently things turned out, how quickly ambitions were shelved, or how easily people change. Former colleagues meet up to reminisce about the failed agency they used to work for; brothers-in-law find themselves co-habiting long after the one person they had in common passed away; fellow performers watch as their careers slowly drift in opposite directions. Boehning's stories offer a rich store of metaphors for this abandonment: the downed tools of a deserted East German factory, lying exactly where they were dropped the day Communism fell; the old, collected cameras of a late father that seem to stare, wide-eyed, at the world he left behind. And yet, underpinning this abandonment, there is also great resilience. Like the cat spotted by a demolition worker in the penultimate story that sits, unflinching, as its home is bulldozed around it, certain spirits abide."

Notes:

Fisrt published in the German language as Schwalbensommer, 2003.

ISBN:

9781905583447

1905583443

OCLC:

968246132

Publisher Number:

99970010690