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Domestic sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)
Suspension Railway / Die Schwebebahn
Explorations of Dresden
A literary tour of Dresden
After the enormous worldwide success of his best selling novel Der Turm (German Book Prize 2008, translated into over 15 languages) Uwe Tellkamp again takes us on a journey through his hometown of Dresden. At every station of this trip an abundance of stories awaits us, which come together to form an unforgettable narrative of the city.
The Dresden Suspension Railway becomes a metaphor for life in all its sensuous variety, poetic and humorous.
The Dresden Suspension Railway becomes a metaphor for life in all its sensuous variety, poetic and humorous.
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After the enormous worldwide success of his best selling novel Der Turm (German Book Prize 2008, translated into over 15 languages) Uwe Tellkamp again takes us on a journey through his hometown of Dresden. At every station of this trip an abundance of stories awaits us, which come together to form an unforgettable narrative of the city.
The Dresden Suspension Railway becomes a metaphor for life in all its sensuous variety, poetic and humorous.
»[…] his descriptions of the city, character studies and memories follow a meandering path which is by turns lucid and lyrical. You have to take your time with these explorations: this is not a travelogue or a city guidebook, this is literature through and through, including the book’s title.« Der Tagesspiegel
»Tellkamp’s Dresden is a living organism, and with each foray one finds something new and unexpected […] This is ambitious, great literature.« Radio Bremen
»With loving attention to detail Tellkamp describes the Dresden of his childhood and the weird and wonderful characters that live there.« Fränkische Landeszeitung
»[…] his descriptions of the city, character studies and memories follow a meandering path which is by turns lucid and lyrical. You have to take your time with these explorations: this is not a travelogue or a city guidebook, this is literature through and through, including the book’s title.« Der Tagesspiegel
»Tellkamp’s Dresden is a living organism, and with each foray one finds something new and unexpected […] This is ambitious, great literature.« Radio...
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2010, 167 pages
Persons
Uwe Tellkamp
Author
Uwe Tellkamp was born in Dresden in 1968. He studied medicine in Leipzig, New York and Dresden. He then worked as a doctor. Now living as a writer in Dresden, his novel Der Turm, published in 2008, won that year’s German Book Prize. Der Turm has been translated into 15 languages.
Uwe Tellkamp
Author
Uwe Tellkamp was born in Dresden in 1968. He studied medicine in Leipzig, New York and Dresden. He then worked as a doctor. Now living as a writer...
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August 2015: Fabian Hoffmann, the former dissident, is a chronicler employed by the »One Thousand and One Nights Department« at Treva. Here, in the labyrinths of an underground world, the...
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Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Hungary (MCC Press)
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The Carus Affairs
»Going to Carus«: that is how the gynaecologist said goodbye to his two children when he set off for the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy each day. The man who gave his name to the institution...
Rights sold to:
Italy (La Nave di Teseo)
Year of Publication: 2008
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The Tower
House music, books, intellectual exchange. A residential quarter in Dresden, its dilapidated villas turning grey under »real-existing Socialism«, continues to keep the outside world at bay. With...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Penguin Press), Spanish world rights (Anagrama), Catalan rights (Anagrama-Empuries), Arabic world rights (Aseer Al-Kotob), France (Grasset; French book club sublicense: Grand Livre du Mois; French paperback sublicense: J'ai lu), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Press), Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Romania (Curtea Veche), Serbia (Zlatni Zmaj), Greece (Kastaniotis)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag), German Book Club (Der Club Bertelsmann), German Book Club Paperback (Weltbild), German Book Club Special Edition (Büchergilde Gutenberg)