| A taut, searing portrait of the effects of Nazism on the psychic and physical landscape of Austria-The clarity of Wray's prose style both belies and reveals the depth and scope of this concerns
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Oskar Voxlauer is in flight from his past - from his bourgeois Austrian upbringing; from horrific memories of fighting on the Italian Front in 1917; and from the twenty years he has spent in the Ukraine watching his Bolshevik ideals crumble and the physical decline of the woman who taught him about love. In 1938, he finally returns to the small Austrian town of his birth where his mother is waiting to greet a son she hasn't seen since he was a boy. But, despite Oskar's attempts to live a reclusive existence as a gamekeeper up in the hills, he cannot escape the tensions that are threatening the tranquil town of Niessen. When Hitler marches into Austria and the Blackshirts come to the valley.
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| Readable and moving-Like Ian McEwan's Black Dogs, The Right Hand of Sleep lays out the past century's dilemma in terms of politics versus the personal
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| The ghost hovering over this assured and astonishingly mature first novel is that of Joseph Roth-Wray's novel displays psychological acuity, a mastery of dialogue and an unfailing historical empathy
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Vintage • General & literary fiction • Previous
ISBN: 0099286440
Publication date: 03/01/2002 • 336 pages • • EAN: 9780099286448 |
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