Name: My Father's Book (The Swiss List)
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Author: Urs Widmer
ISBN: 9780857425270

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Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Chicago Pr.

Author

Urs Widmer

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

173

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780857425270

Edition No.

Synopsis "My Father's Book (The Swiss List) "

In this companion to Urs Widmer’s novel My Mother’s Lover, the narrator is again the son who pieces together the fragments of his parents’ stories. Since the age of twelve, Karl, the father, has observed the family tradition of recording his life in a single notebook, but when his book is lost soon after his death, his son resolves to rewrite it. Here, we get to know Karl’s friends—a collection of anti-fascist painters and architects known as Group 33. We learn of the early years of Karl’s marriage and follow his military service as the Swiss fear a German invasion during World War II, his political activity for the Communist Party, and his brief career as a teacher. Widmer brilliantly combines family history and historical events to tell the story of a man more at home in the world of the imagination than in the real world, a father who grows on the reader, just as he grows on his son.

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