Bibliograph

Grove, a field novel, Esther Kinsky ; translated from the German by Caroline Schmidt

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Grove, a field novel, Esther Kinsky ; translated from the German by Caroline Schmidt

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Grove

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1160209017

Responsibility statement

Esther Kinsky ; translated from the German by Caroline Schmidt

Sub title

a field novel

Summary

'Grove is a story of an existence stilled by loss, but the promise of life, and with it renewal and hope, pulses gently but steadily at its heart.''Lucy Scholes, Financial Times An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on walks and outings, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. Seeing, describing, naming the world around her is her way of redefining her place within it. In Kinsky's Grove, winner of the 2018 Leipzig Book Prize, grief must bear the weight of the world and full of grief the narrator becomes one with the brittle manifestations of the Italian winter

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