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The
2004 Award
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Rain
by Karen Duve |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| When Leon Ulbricht lands a contract to write a gangster's memoirs and moves into his dream home in an isolated East German village with his beautiful wife Martina, everything seems set for an idyllic existence. But his house is by a fetid swamp, and like his marriage, it's falling apart; he can't write the book he needs to write and has spent his entire advance. It rains without end and their attempts to repair the house, or at least dry it out, are hampered by the plague of slugs eating away at the garden and the foundations. And then the gangster, wondering why his memoirs are not yet completed, decides to get nasty….. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Karen
Duve was born in 1961 and lives in Hamburg, Germany. She has received
numerous awards for her short stories. Rain is her first novel. The translator, Anthea Bell, who lives in Cambridge, has translated many works of fiction and non-fiction from German and French and has won various translation awards, most recently the 2002 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and (in the USA) the Helen Kur Wolff Translator's Prize for W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz. |
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