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The Way to Eden

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Book Express (NZ)
(Wellington, Nueva Zelanda)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 150 pages. A German novelist views small-town America with fr esh eyes and provides a refreshing yet challenging read. Editori al Reviews Review A place to slip out of the world? -- Yes, it e xists. Just read Gerhard Köpf's newest novel and you will have a good chance of getting to Eden. Eden lies in Vermont, U.S.A., far away from the German cabinet of horrors. In Eden you can go hunt ing and fishing. There Indian Summer is burning maples under a bo undless blue sky; the cemetery is called Nomad's Rest, and the de ad are granted 'eternal reading.'It all started with Grandmother, who fell in love with the American officer John Fulton Rea from Eden, VT, who left her in the lurch and returned to his homeland. Grandmother's wish to settle down in Eden at last was not grante d. So it remains for her grandson, the narrator, to take his gran dmother to Eden posthumously. With the urn containing her ashes i n his luggage, he travels to all the places she once wanted to st op over at on her way, all the way to Eden, where he strews her a shes over the dead colonel's grave.With his grandmother's savings he buys the colonel's house; his neighbor is the latter's uncle, and his faithful roommate is malaria, which he. MITTELBAYERISC HE ZEITUNG. Nº de ref. del artículo: 980x

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