Hinterland

Name: Hinterland
Brand: Pan Macmillan

Pan Macmillan

HinterlandAuthor(s): Arno Geiger, Jamie Bulloch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom\nImprint: Picador\nISBN-13: 9781529003161, 978-1529003161\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation\n\n'Both a great anti-war novel and a love story, full of tenderness as around it the world shatters.' Der Spiegel, 'Novel of the Year'\n\nThe year is 1944 and Veit Kolbe, a young German soldier, injured fighting in Russia, is recovering at Mondsee, a village and a lake below Drachenwand mountain, close to Salzburg in Austria. Here he meets Margot and Margarete, two young women who share his hope that sometime, sooner or later, life will begin again.\n\nThe war is lost but how long will it take before it finally comes to its end? In Hinterland, Arno Geiger tells of Veits nightmares and the strangely normal life of the small village, of the Brazilian who dreams of returning to Rio de Janeiro, of the landlady and her rallying calls, of Margarete the teah