MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2014003513
003 DLC
005 20150701081308.0
008 140327s2014 nyu b 001 1 eng
010 $a 2014003513
020 $a9780812993066 (hardback)
020 $z9780679644552 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hger
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPT2601.D614$bU5713 2014
082 00 $a833/.914$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC046000$aFIC004000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aAdler, H. G.
240 10 $aUnsichtbare Wand.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe wall :$ba novel /$cH. G. Adler ; translated from the German by Peter Filkins.
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[2014]
300 $axix, 630 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"This work was originally published in Germany as Die unsichtbare Wand by Paul Zsolnay Verlag in 1989. Copyright (c) 1989 by Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna" - Verso title page.
520 $a"When Random House published the first English translation of H.G. Adler's The Journey in 2008, literary critics and historians alike came to recognize Adler as a neglected modern master, comparing him to Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, and Gertrude Stein. Told in a powerful stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of our finest modernist writers, The Wall is the story of Arthur Landau, a Holocaust survivor struggling to leave behind the horrors of the past and find a foothold in the present. After the war, Arthur returns to Prague in the hope of finding his parents, works in a museum that collects Jewish artifacts, and eventually crosses the border, leaving his homeland and friends for good. Despite the loss of his first wife to the camps, the love of his second wife, Johanna, and their two children anchors him amid the chaotic and competitive world of postwar exiles living in London. Though Adler recreates time and place with stunning descriptive detail, the themes are universal and timeless. The "wall" in front of Arthur will not let him entirely remember the past and thus free himself from nightmares, nor entirely let him forget the past and move on. Though he sees himself as akin to "that first Adam", expelled forever from Paradise, Arthur gradually learns to affirm his life once again through his family and work, a testimony to the human spirit that continues to persevere within him"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aHolocaust survivors$vFiction.
650 0 $aExiles$vFiction.
650 0 $aPsychic trauma$vFiction.
650 0 $aSelf-realization$vFiction.
651 0 $aPrague (Czech Republic)$vFiction.
651 0 $aLondon (England)$vFiction.
655 0 $aPsychological fiction.
655 0 $aJewish fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Jewish.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Classics.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aFilkins, Peter,$etranslator.
856 42 $3Cover image$u9780812993066.jpg