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2004 Nominated

Rain

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

When Leon Ulbricht lands a contract to write a gangster’s memoirs and moves into his dream home in an isolated East German village with his beautiful wife Martina, everything seems set for an idyllic existence. But his house is by a fetid swamp, and like his marriage, it’s falling apart; he can’t write the book he needs to write and has spent his entire advance. It rains without end and their attempts to repair the house, or at least dry it out, are hampered by the plague of slugs eating away at the garden and the foundations. And then the gangster, wondering why his memoirs are not yet completed, decides to get nasty…..

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Karen
Duve

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Anthea
Bell

Anthea Bell OBE was an English translator of literary works, including children’s literature, from French, German and Danish. These include The Castle by Franz Kafka, Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, the Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke and the French Asterix comics with co-translator Derek Hockridge.

Anthea Bell OBE was an English translator of literary works, including children’s literature, from French, German and Danish. These include The Castle by Franz Kafka, Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, the Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke and the French Asterix comics with co-translator Derek Hockridge.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Germany
Original Language
German
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Translator
Anthea Bell

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