The dark meadow
By: Andrea Maria Schenkel ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Contributors: Bell, Anthea, translator
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781780877730; 9781780877747; 9781780877754
Subjects: Fiction; Dorf; Tochter; Nichteheliches Kind; Mord
Work titles: Finsterau
Description: Bavaria, Germany, 1944. At the end of the war, Afra Zauner returns to her parents' cottage on the edge of Mauther Forest. Unmarried, and pregnant. As she struggles to raise her child, her father's shame, her mother's fury and the loud whispers of the neighbours begin to weigh upon her. She doesn't believe in her sin. But everyone else does. And someone brings judgement down upon her.
Notes: Translated from the German.