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Accident : a day's news / Christa Wolf ; translated by Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian.
Van Pelt Library PT2685.O36 S713 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolf, Christa, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Störfall. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (Chornobylʹ, Ukraine : 1986).
- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986--Fiction.
- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986.
- Ukraine--Chornobylʹ.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 113 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- University of Chicago Press ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- "On a flawless spring day in late April, an East German writer awaits a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery and instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and, above all, the importance of each moment lived."-- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Flora Haney Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0226905063
- 9780226905068
- OCLC:
- 45446148
- Publisher Number:
- 99996354907
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