Beautiful and heartbreaking...I absolutely loved it'Monica Ali,Sunday Times Bestselling author of Love Marriage'The whole,biographically inspired family drama tells of the greatest feelings we have: Love,anger,envy and grief'Meike Schnitzler,BrigitteMaria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army,Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation,the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria as little more than a beautiful temptress out for the men left behind. But when a red-haired stranger arrives in the village,Maria feels happiness seep back into her life and she faces a choice whose consequences will affect the lives of her family for generations to come.Based on the internationally bestselling and award-winning Austrian novelist Monika Helfer's own family history,Last House Before the Mountain is a propulsive,haunting,multi-layered saga about love,family,and the hidden wages of war.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526657145Number of pages: 192Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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(Last House) is beautiful and heartbreaking,and readers will fall in love with Maria. It's also a profound meditation on the stories we tell about ourselves,the stories others tell about us,how those stories are handed down the generations,and the effect of inherited narratives and memories on our lives. I absolutely loved itA poignant,captivating,beautifully woven family saga. As honest as Elena Ferrante,with the folkloric intensity of Téa Obreht,Last House Before the Mountain explores the ways we reconstruct our family histories in an attempt to understand who we areLast House Before the Mountain by Monika Helfer is a masterclass in literary compression. In just 125 pages,Helfer brings a whole world of wonder,loss and deep,deep longing to indelible lifeMonika Helfer powerfully transfigures the lives of a family who exist physically and emotionally at the edge of their society,as the flames of war reshape their shadowed world foreverThe whole,biographically inspired family drama tells of the greatest feelings we have: Love,anger,envy and griefEvery sentence resonates in hazy,indescribable beautyIn Monika Helfer's novel,not only every word is right,but every syllableA powerful,autofictional family epic
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