Marek Krajewski,Danusia Stok: The End of the World in Breslau: An Eberhard Mock Investigation
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Breslau in the 1920s is haunt of marquises and merchants, gamblers and gutter-rats. Eberhard Mock, the hardened Criminal Councillor, fits right in as he sways from the basements of grubby casinos to his beautiful young wife in their palatial mansion. But his beautiful young wife is feeling neglected. A series of sinister murders linked by the dates of past crimes has taken Mock out of the bedroom and into the archives. While Mock ransacks the city for clues, driven mad by the killer's tantalizing notes, his wife is seeking attention elsewhere. Engaging in perverted games with her less-than-innocent girlfriends, Mock's wife is being seduced by a mysterious sect which preaches the imminent end of the world.
Caroline Jayne Church returns with an emotional story that proves no matter how much things in life change, one thing lasts forever: a parent's love. In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prizewinning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when "The Tin Drum "was published.During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from shrapnel wounds, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved with his first wife to Paris, where he began to The End of the World in Breslau: An Eberhard Mock Investigation download epub write the novel that would make him famous.Full of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties, "Peeling the Onion"which caused great controversy when it was published in Germanyreveals Grass at his most intimate."
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Author: Marek Krajewski,Danusia Stok
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 04 Mar 2010
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781906694722
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