Peter Kurzeck: Across the Ice, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Across the Ice
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- Translation:
- Imogen Taylor
- Publisher:
- And Other Stories, 01/2027
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781916751774
- Item number:
- 12603025
- Volume:
- 240 Pages
- Format:
- 198 x 127 mm
- Thickness:
- 13 mm
- Release date:
- 26.1.2027
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
The first English translation of Peter Kurzeck's work offers a warm alternative to autofictions by authors like Knausgård.
Across the Ice is the first book in Peter Kurzeck's chronicle The Old Century, in which everyday occurrences, thoughts, memories and minute observations combine to form a tender, bluesy account of a particular life.
1984 gets off to an inauspicious start for the narrator, Peter: he and his girlfriend, Sibylle, have split up after nine years, he's lost his job and the only place he can find to live is a 'junk room' in someone else's flat. The dismal Frankfurt winter doesn't help; it's always either raining or snowing. Peter takes refuge in his writing, or roams the city looking for work. But every street holds memories of happier times with Sibylle or family days out with their daughter Carina. Now Peter can see four-year-old Carina only occasionally; the treasured hours with her are almost all that remain to him of his old life.
Biography (Peter Kurzeck)
Peter Kurzeck ist 1943 in Böhmen geboren und als Flüchtlingskind in Staufenberg im Kreis Gießen aufgewachsen, lebte seit 1970 viele Jahre in Frankfurt am Main und in Uzès, Südfrankreich. Verschiedene Literaturpreise und Stipendien: Alfred-Döblin-Preis 1991, Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste 1999, Hans-Erich-Nossack-Preis 2000, Stadtschreiber von Bergen 2000/2001. 2008 erhielt Peter Kurzeck den Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis. Der Autor verstarb 2013.
