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Kokoschka's doll / Afonso Cruz ; translated from the Portuguese by Rahul Bery.
Van Pelt Library PQ9303.R89 B6613 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cruz, Afonso, 1971- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Boneca de Kokoschka. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Germany--Dresden--20th century--Fiction.
- Families.
- World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Germany--Dresden.
- Portuguese literature.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : MacLehose Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- At the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice. But it doesn't belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice of God, as he comes to believe. It belongs to young Isaac Dresner, who takes refuge in the cellar of Vogel's bird shop on the run from the soldier who shot his best friend. Soon Vogel comes to rely on it for advice: he cannot make a sale without first bending down to confer with the floorboards. Thus begins the story of two Dresden families, fractured and displaced by the devastating bombing of the city in 1945, their fates not only intertwined, but bound also to that of a life-sized doll commissioned by the artist Oskar Kokoschka in the image of his lost lover.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- First published in Portuguese as A Boneca de Kokoschka, by Quetzal Editores, Lisbon, 2010.
- ISBN:
- 9781529402698
- 1529402697
- OCLC:
- 1222803189
- Publisher Number:
- 99989475519
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