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Recommended domestic fiction books (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into domestic fiction here are some domestic fiction books from Austria for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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How German Is It by Walter Abish EN

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Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Ulrich Hargenau testifies against fellow members of a German terrorist group in order to save himself and his wife, Paula, and contemplates the nature of his German heritage. The question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish's novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the patrimony of the saber and the castle on the Rhine, give way to the present, indiscriminate fascination with all things American. On his return from Paris to his home city of Würtenburg, Ulrich Hargenau, whose father was execu... continue