Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy,esteemed,established. Four generations later,a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.In this,Mann's first novel,his astounding,semi-autobiographical family epic,he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century'New York Times
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780749386474Number of pages: 864Weight: 619 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 44 mm
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Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th centuryA simple but magnificent proof of genius. A first novel by a 25-year-old with absolute command of his craft,uncanny knowledge of his world,its past and present,and a daring originality which makes its last pages among the most startlingly moving I knowOne of the best novels of the 20th centuryThat definitive epic of German family lifeHis masterpiece
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