Portrait of the mother as a young woman
By: Friedrich Christian Delius ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
Publisher: Peirene
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780956284006
Subjects: Fiction; Germans; History
Work titles: Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau
Description: Rome, one January afternoon in 1943. A young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. Innocent and naive, the war is for her little more than a daydream, until she realizes that her husband might never return.
Notes: In English translated from the German.