Ikarien
Subtitle: Roman
By: Uwe Timm
Edition: 1. Auflage.
Publisher: Kiwi
Published: 2017
Language: ger
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9783462050486
Subjects: Friends and associates; Americans; World War, 1939-1945; Icarian movement; Fiction
Description: A multi-layered and engaging novel by one of Germany's most important contemporary novelists and a fascinating journey into German post-war history. Like in Am Beispiel meines Bruders Timm takes real life characters like Alfred Ploetz - who coined the term "racial hygiene" - and asks big questions about the quest for alternatives to the status quo while at the same time painting a vivid picture of a country destroyed by war and an inhuman ideology and telling a moving story of a young man at the beginning of his life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-506).