One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century
$33.15
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2019
Summary
“A highly original and often hypnotic work … exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace” - John Boyne, author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany’s best-known contemporary playwright
One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connectin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857056979 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857056972 |
| Author: | Roland Schimmelpfennig, Jamie Bulloch |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | MacLehose Press Editions |
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Critics Review
Schimmelpfennig’s world is uncomfortable and cold; but in the hearts of his characters glow the flames of longing, passion and solidarity
A magnificent achievement, a novel of terrific originality - New European
A vivid ensemble of nuanced characters emerge as their daily lives coincide through a cleverly multi-layered, interconnected narrative … Schimmlpfennig rarely says too much in a brilliantly kaleidoscopic morality tale that suggests a great deal - Financial TimesA highly original and often hypnotic work … exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace. - Irish TimesA looping, episodic, beguiling contemporary fable about a set of dysfunctional, seemingly disconnected characters whose fates are spun together along the mysterious wolf ’s path … delivered crisply in Jamie Bulloch’s translation. - Daily Telegraph (*****)The exhilarating narrative is wonderfully concise, and the imagery is intensely cinematic. - Guardian.Schimmelpfennig’s world is uncomfortable and cold; but in the hearts of his characters glow the flames of longing, passion and solidarity - Berliner ZeitungRoland Schimmelpfennig shockingly reverses readerly expectations and conjures up for us a superbly dark comedy of manners … This combined quality of stage economy and theatricality accentuates what is essentially a particularly unflinching, penetrating gaze into the state of our society. - BookanistaA powerful novel of extraordinary momentum and contemporaneity - its looping narrative is both gripping and unsettling - SpiegelAbout The Author
Roland Schimmelpfennig
Roland Schimmelpfennig, born in 1967, is Germany’s most celebrated contemporary playwright. He began his career as a journalist before studying to be a theatre director, and his plays have now been performed in more than forty countries. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Schuler-Prize, to honor his entire Oeuvre. One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century is his first novel, shortlisted for the Leipzig Bookfair Prize in 2016. His play Winter Solstice is on tour across the U.K. in 2018. He lives in Berlin.
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