Portrait of the mother as a young woman
By: Friedrich Christian Delius ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
Contributors: Bulloch, Jamie
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; Previously published in English: London : Peirene, 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780374533298
Subjects: Fiction; Germans; History
Work titles: Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau
Description: A Nazi-era German woman, on her way to a Bach concert in Rome, tries to remain aloof and emotionally distant from the war but comes to the gradual realization that her husband might never return from the front.