- Audiobook
- 2024
- 5 hrs 50 mins
- Bloomsbury Publishing
Title
Library for the War-Wounded
Description
Bloomsbury presents Library for the War-Wounded by Monika Helfer, read by Kristin Atherton.
From Monika Helfer's award-winning, internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on her own family. Translated into English for the first time.
'We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa. That's what he wanted. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the modern age. Though he seemed to come from nowhere.'
Josef was an illegitimate child, a charity case from Salzburg, schooled by a benefactor. He was drafted to fight in the Second World War while still at school and sent to Russia, returning with only one leg. He married his nurse, and brought his family to the high, idyllic slopes of the Austrian Alps, where he took a position as manager of a home for injured soldiers, a strangely suspended, deeply isolated place with a remarkable library.
He was a man of many mysteries. To his daughter, Monika, none was greater than his obsession with these cloistered, crumbling books, his great treasure and secret amidst a country barrelling away from the memory of war.
Beautifully written, restrained, and memorable, Library for the War-Wounded turns a real life into great literature by confronting the universal question: Who are our parents, really?
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Product details
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Title:
Library for the War-Wounded
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Language:
EN
ISBN Audio:
9781526657299
Publication date:
February 14, 2024
translated by:
Keywords:
books about familiesfamily historyhistorical fictionSecond World Wartranslation translated writingautofiction autobiographicalbased on real lifeTrue Storygerman germanysecond world war ii 2books about booksLibrarywartime war storiessoldiers battleaustiran alpsremote settingsfathers daughtersparents childrentrilogytranslated into englishforeign world literatureRussiahome for injured soldiersfamily sagaInternational bestsellerlast house before the mountain
Duration
5 hrs 50 mins
Product type
AUDIO
Explicit:
No
Audio drama:
No
Unabridged:
Yes
About the author:
Monika Helfer grew up in Vorarlberg, Austria. Her novels include the internationally bestselling, Schubart Prize-winning Die Bagage (Last House Before the Mountain) and Löwenherz (Lionheart). She has been awarded the Bodensee and Solothurn Literature Prizes, the Johann Beer Prize, and the Austrian Cross of Honor. She lives in Hohenems, Austria.
Gillian Davidson is a literary translator based in London. Monika Helfer's Last House Before the Mountain was her first published work of translation.