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This title in other formats:Karnau Tapesby Marcel Beyer
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In this outstanding novel, the war years and the final days of the Third Reich are seen from two very different perspectives. Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer who has been sent to the Russian fron to pick up enemy sound transmissions but continues to pursue his secret obsession: recording the screams of the wounded and teh sighs and death rattles of the moribund. The other voice is that of Goebbels' eldest daughter, Helga. Through her eyes we see Germany subside into the welter of blood and fire that finally consumes her. In the final days of the Reich they meet in the bunker to which Karnau has been sent, to record the Leader's final utterances. Review:"For more than half a century now, Germany's Nazi past has been the dark, inexhaustible wellspring of the country's fiction. Marcel Beyer's virtuoso new novel can rank among the most vivid and unsettling responses to the subject." The Times, London Review:"Beyer's meticulous prose lends a chilling resonance to his account of the Riech's collapse." Scotland on Sunday Review:"This terrifyingly lucid portrait of the last days of the Third Reich is a powerful and disturbing work...without ever losing its narrative immediacy The Karnau Tapes becomes a meditation on guilt, innocence, normality and madness." Irish Times Review:"Bleak, touching." Time Out, London About the AuthorMarcel Beyer was born in 1965 and lives in Cologne. His first novel, Der Menschenfleisch, was described by the Suddeutsche Zeitung as a masterpiece and The Karnau Tapes, his second novel, has been translated into ten languages. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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