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Third reel / S.J.Naude.
Van Pelt Library PT6592.24.A93 N38 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naudé, S. J., author.
- Language:
- Afrikaans
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
- Berlin (Germany).
- England--London.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Cinematographers--Fiction.
- Cinematographers.
- Artists--Fiction.
- Artists.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 382 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield Salt Publishing, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time of Thatcher, anti-apartheid campaigns and Aids, but also of postmodern art, post-punk rock, and Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Adrift in a city cast in shadow, he falls in love with a German artist while living in derelict artists' communes. When Etienne finds the first of three reels of a German film from the 1930s, he begins searching for the missing reels, a project that turns into an obsession when his lover disappears in Berlin. It is while navigating this city divided by the Wall that Etienne gradually pieces together the history of a small group of Jewish film makers in Nazi Germany. It is a desperate quest amid complications that pull him back to the present and to South Africa. However, his search for the missing film continues."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1784631507
- 9781784631505
- OCLC:
- 1013819437
- Publisher Number:
- 99996274651
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