Europe Central
by Vollmann, William T
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very good. No dust jacket as issued. National Book Award Winner sticker on front cover.
- ISBN 10
- 0143036599
- ISBN 13
- 9780143036593
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About This Item
Penguin Books, 2006. Reprint. Second Pbk. printing. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. National Book Award Winner sticker on front cover.. xiii, 811 p. Illustrations. Sources William T. Vollmann turns his attention to Central Europe, setting this 800-page novel in 1941, when the German army was moving into Russia, where it would soon meet major defeats. Vollmann incorporates not only actual events but real people (they include Käthe Kollwitz, Shostakovich, and the German general Paulus), along with figures from German mythology, into a narrative that aims to find equivalences between Nazism and Stalinism and to show exactly what "just following orders" meant to the actual people who were involved. Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction.
Synopsis
Europe Central is a 2005 National Book Award-winning novel by William T. Vollmann. The novel, which takes place in central Europe in the 20th century, examines a vast array of characters, ranging from generals to martyrs, officers to poets, traitors to artists and musicians. It deals with the moral decisions made by people in the most testing of times and offering a bold and mesmerizing perspective on human actions during wartime.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60583
- Title
- Europe Central
- Author
- Vollmann, William T
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket as issued. National Book Award Winner sticker on front cover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint. Second Pbk. printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0143036599
- ISBN 13
- 9780143036593
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Operation Barbarossa, Field Marshal, Operation Citadel, Operation Hagen, Denazification, Berlin Airlift, Operation Wolund, Dmitri Shostakovich
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