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Old rendering plant / Wolfgang Hilbig ; translated by Isabel Fargo Cole.
Van Pelt Library PT2668.I323 W4513 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Die Weiber, Alte Abdeckerei, Die Kunde von den Bï¿1/2aumen. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Coal-fired power plants.
- Germany (East)--Fiction.
- Germany (East).
- Teenage boys--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Coal-fired power plants--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 109 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Two Lines Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- It starts when a young boy becomes obsessed with an empty and decayed coal plant, coming to believe that it is tied to mysterious disappearances throughout the countryside. But as a young man, with the building now turned into an abattoir processing dead animals, he revisits this place and his memories of it, realizing just how much he has missed.
- Notes:
- "Originally published as Die Weiber, Alte Abdeckerei, Die Kunde von den Bï¿1/2aumen by Wolfgang Hilbig, ï¿1/22010"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1897 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 193188367X
- 9781931883672
- OCLC:
- 973083806
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