August

Christa Wolf, Katy Derbyshire

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Seagull Books London Ltd
15 February 2022

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: German List

August is Christa Wolf's last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary gift to her husband. In it, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946, a real-life event that was the inspiration for the closing scenes of her 1976 novel Patterns of Childhood. This time, however, the story unfolds through the eyes of August, a young patient who has lost both his parents to the war. He adores an older girl, Lilo, a rebellious teenager who controls the wards. Sixty years later, August reflects on his life and the things that she taught him.

Written in taut, affectionate prose, August offers a new entry into Christa Wolf's work and, incidentally, her first and only male protagonist. More than a literary artifact, this new novel is a perfectly constructed story of a quiet life well lived. For both August and Christa Wolf, the past never dies.

'August fits the mold for the kind of memory piece that has even become a genre: an older man looking back upon his life and revisiting its twists and turns, its more difficult questions. But August isn't interested in understanding anything. And this is the key.' - Necessary Fiction

By: Christa Wolf
Translated by: Katy Derbyshire
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9780857427076
ISBN 10: 0857427075
Series: German List
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 15 February 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christa Wolf (19292011) was a German novelist, essayist and screenwriter whose works include the ground-breaking novels The Quest for Christa T (1968), Patterns of Childhood (1976) and Cassandra (1983). She was awarded many prizes, among them the Bchner Prize of the German Academy of Language and Poetry the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Geschwister Scholl Prize of the city of Munich.

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August

Christa Wolf, Katy Derbyshire

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