Luck
Gert Hofmann
(Author)
Michael Hofmann
(Translator)
Description
A heartwrenching tale of a family's dissolution told from a child's crystalline perspective.Luck is the beautiful, bittersweet, and very funny novel about a nuclear family living in a small German townwonderfully translated by Gert Hofmann's son, acclaimed translator and poet Michael Hofmann. It begins and ends on the same day, the last day of the narrator's childhood as he prepares to leave home with Father, because Mother is waiting for her new man to arrive, and his sister will stay behind. Or will they really leave? Mother sits in her room, squirting herself with perfume. Father endlessly postpones his packing, hoping for a magical conversation that will mend his marriage. His little sister spits on her new dress, and asks....Product Details
Price
$14.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
November 17, 2004
Pages
266
Dimensions
4.96 X 0.73 X 7.72 inches | 0.63 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811216074
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About the Author
Gert Hofmann (1931-1993) was a German writer and educator. He worked for a time for the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in modern German literature and has received many awards, most recently the Independent Foreign Fiction Award in 1996 for The Film Explainer.
Dr. Yasemin Dayoglu-Yucel ist DAAD-Lektorin an der Istanbul Universitat. Prof. Dr. Michael Hofmann lehrt und forscht an der Universitat Paderborn. Prof. Dr. Seyda Ozil (Universitat Istanbul) arbeitet als Linguistin schwerpunktmassig zu deutsch-turkisch-kontrastiven Themen.
Reviews
"The emotional center of [Luck] - a father's story recounted by his son - is wonderfully reinforced by the younger Hofmann's attention to his father's work."
