The English Years

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 293, [5 (blank)]. Pictorial card wraps.

Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Originally published as Die englischen Jahre by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt, in 1999.

Winner of the Alfred Döblin Prize. Author's first novel to be translated into English. Classified an "undesirable alien" during the war and sent to a camp on the Isle of Man, literary icon Gabriel Hirschfelder is living out his days in Southend-on-Sea. After his death, a young woman's curiosity is piqued and she seeks out the women in his life to uncover Hirschfelder's secrets. Recipient of the 2019 Austrian Book Prize for Als ich jung war. "[A] towering performance." –Die Zeit