Interested in German books? Join us in person at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow for a discussion (in German) about the novel 'The Blurriness of the World' (Die Unschärfe der Welt) by Iris Wolff. New members welcome!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Iris Wolff tells the moving story of a family from the Banat whose ties are so tightly woven that they do not break even across borders. A novel about people from four generations, which relates loss and new beginnings in an enchantingly poetic way.
Would Florentine and Hannes even have opened their door to the two young travellers if they had known what role the visit from the GDR would play in the lives of the Banat family? Would Samuel have stood by his best friend Oz wholeheartedly even if he had known the extent of his decision? In "The Blurriness of the World", the lives of seven people, seven elective relatives, are interconnected. Despite strokes of fate and spatial distances, they move incessantly towards each other. Against the backdrop of the collapsing Eastern Bloc and the eventful history of the 20th century, a great novel is created that asks what we are willing to give up for the happiness of others.
Nominated for the German Book Prize 2020, the Bavarian Book Prize in the fiction category 2020 and the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2020.
Extract in German
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Iris Wolff, born in 1977 in Hermannstadt, Transylvania, studied German language and literature, religious studies, graphics and painting. She worked for many years at the German Literature Archive in Marbach and has received numerous awards for her literary work, including the Ernst-Habermann-Prize, the ALPHA-Literature-Prize, the Otto-Stoessl-Prize, the Thaddäus-Troll-Prize and the Marie-Luise-Fleißer-Prize. She was nominated for the highly regarded Alfred-Döblin-Prize and has been awarded scholarships by the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben. Wolff is a member of exile PEN International. She lives in Freiburg, in the south-west of Germany.
Text source: New Books in German
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Everyone who would like to read and discover German books and share their reading experience with others is welcome. The conversation will be in German. All participants should have sufficient language skills to read and discuss in German.
Participation is free of charge.
Registration
If you are not a regular member of the book club please register your interest by sending an email to library-glasgow@goethe.de. We will add you to our book club mailing list.
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