- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail (Sep 1 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1852429453
- ISBN-13: 978-1852429454
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 13 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #681,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'An exhilirating, liberating, brief and delightful novel with a story at every turning' New Statesman 'Quirky, thoughtful and often poetic, it opens a subjective and fascinating window on to the recent past' The Times 'Cultish, electrifying memoir' Independent on Sunday 'Huelle writes in such an engaging, chatty style that you hardly notice the fraught circumstances underlying every tale' Guardian 'Playful, bittersweet, juggling irony with regret' Independent"
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Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2008
“Delightful . . . gently, deceptively provocative.”— The Observer
“Full of depth and allusion . . . wonderfully absurd humour.”— The Independent on Sunday
Inspired by Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain , Castorp recounts Hans Castorp’s student years in Gdansk, Poland. Pawel Huelle imagines what happened when Castorp encounters people, events, and ideas that anticipate the years to come, including an enigmatic woman who becomes his obsession.
Set at the dawn of the twentieth century, Castorp conveys with elegant restraint the accelerating pressure as Europe hurtles toward the First World War.
Pawel Huelle is a novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist. He lives in Gdansk, Poland. His previous novels include Mercedes-Benz .
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