num_pages: 127
description: An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived--open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis.
language: English
title: Accident: A Day's News
titlecomplete: Accident: A Day's News
genres: Classics, Historical, German Literature, Germany, Read For School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Modern
ratings_count: 464
publisher: University of Chicago Press