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The fifth year / Marlen Haushofer ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Haushofer Fifth
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haushofer, Marlen, 1920-1970, author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1666.
- New Directions paperback ; 1666
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Girls--Fiction.
- Girls.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Austria--Fiction.
- Austria.
- German fiction--Translations into English.
- German fiction.
- Genre:
- novellas.
- Novellas.
- Domestic fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 92 pages ; 19 cm.
- Other Title:
- The 5th year
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2026.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the original German.
- Summary:
- A haunting story of a childhood in the Austrian countryside from the author of The Wall
- The Fifth Year follows a five-year-old girl, Marili, through each season of a single year on her grandparents' farm in the mountains of Austria. Her grand-mother is a quiet, melancholic woman; her grandfather, with his calm, cheerful disposition, radiates warmth. Marili's parents have died in the war, and she is left to discover--with curiosity, wonder, and fear--the beauty and darkness of a quiet pastoral life. Sinister elements lurk beneath the surface of The Fifth Year, in Marili's dreams and fantasies, and this deceptively simple tale of childhood, told in effervescent and evocative prose, bubbles to life in Marlen Haushofer's inimitably alarming style.
- Notes:
- "First published in 1951 by Jungbrunnen Verlag ; published in 2023 as Das Fünfte Jahr by Cassen Verlag."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780811239981
- 0811239985
- OCLC:
- 1564117066
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