04323cam a2200985 4500 531247918 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781681374369 1681374366 B07T9WQK3V Amazon e95923b6-d02a-4950-9ee3-4cb025968eb3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 621099 621099 621099 5003867 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kempowski, Walter. Marrow and Bone [Libby eBook]. New York Review Books, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1315kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. realistic fiction books. political science. literary fiction. Travel writing. Eastern Europe. humorous books. World History. Short Stories. fiction books. books fiction. anthropology. translation. funny books. humor books. funny gifts. philosophy. Journalism. literature. wanderlust. Sociology. language. Cooking. culture. society. Writing. Fiction. classic. mystery. russian. England. walking. beloved. health. novels. satire. Comedy. german. memory. Modern. french. Essays. school. Humor. Aging. crime. Death. Dutch. race. WWII. War. ww2. HTML:<b>A moving, darkly funny road trip novel about World War II, returning to one's birthplace, and coming to terms with tragedy.</b><br /> West Germany, 1988, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall: Jonathan Fabrizius, a middle-aged erstwhile journalist, has a comfortable existence in Hamburg, bank- rolled by his furniture-manufacturing uncle. He lives with his girlfriend Ulla in a grand, decrepit prewar house that just by chance escaped annihilation by the Allied bombers. One day Jonathan receives a package in the mail from the Santubara Company, a luxury car company, commissioning him to travel in their newest V8 model through the People's Republic of Poland and to write about the route for a car rally. Little does the company know that their choice location is Jonathan's birthplace, for Jonathan is a war orphan from former East Prussia, whose mother breathed her last fleeing the Russians and whose father, a Nazi soldier, was killed on the Baltic coast. At first Jonathan has no interest in the job, or in dredging up ancient family history, but as his relationship with Ulla starts to wane, the idea of a return to his birthplace, and the money to be made from the gig, becomes more appealing. What follows is a darkly comic road trip, a queasy misadventure of West German tourists in Communist Poland, and a reckoning that is by turns subtle, satiric, and genuine. <i>Marrow and Bone</i> is an uncomfortably funny and revelatory odyssey by one of the most talented and nuanced writers of postwar Germany. Humor (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Collins, Charlotte. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e95923b6-d02a-4950-9ee3-4cb025968eb3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e95923b6-d02a-4950-9ee3-4cb025968eb3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e95923b6-d02a-4950-9ee3-4cb025968eb3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)