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Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner

Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner

Author(s): Francis Nenik, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)

Location(s): Germany, Corfu

Genre(s): Nonfiction, In Translation

Era(s): 20th Century

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Francis Nenik‘s thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction Journey through a Tragicomic Century is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young Communists in 1920s Leipzig to wartime Corfu, with Grabner falling from steelworks director to a vilified author banned from publishing his work in the GDR.

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Author: Tina Hartas

3.5* This is an imaginative re-telling of the life of Hasso Grabner. Who is he?  A writer who was born in 1911 in Germany and who, over his life time, saw a huge amount...

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