9780006551041

In Babylon

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780006551041

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Overview

Winner of two major European prizes, this funny, quirky chronicle of a family of Dutch clockmakers is a bestseller in the Netherlands.

Sixty-year-old Nathan Hollander is stranded in a winter blizzard with his young niece, Nina, in the deserted house of his late Uncle Herman. As they wait for the weather to improve, Nathan tells Nina the story of their forefathers - a family of clockmakers who came to the Netherlands from Eastern Europe and then emigrated to America before WWII. An extraordinary and rich family history emerges.



An epic family saga, a Gothic novel gone haywire, a very human story and a chronicle of the twentieth century, In Babylon is already set to be a classic European novel. A piece of very solid, traditional storytelling combined with a very funny, sensual magical realism. A brilliant merging of the lightness of popular American writing and the depth of European literature.

ISBN-13

9780006551041

ISBN-10

0006551041

Weight

0.69 Pounds

Dimensions

5.08 x 0.98 x 7.80 In

List Price

$14.99

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

432 pages

Publisher

Flamingo

Published On

2000-05-02



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