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In a fast-moving family saga, which is told in a funny and fearless fashion, Irene Dische lends her Grandmother a voice of her very own. The good Catholic Elisabeth Rother knows no taboos, no matter whether they concern her marital bed, the Jews, the Good Lord himself or the Gestapo. However, no catastrophe, not even the escape to America or World War II is on her mind as much as the numerous branches of her clan. Irene Dische solves an eternal problem in literature with great virtuosity: that of the autobiography. It is well-known that everybody wanting to describe his or her own life gets entangled in a web of lies. The author frees herself from this dilemma by exposing herself to the merciless scrutiny of her larger-than- life Grandmother. “Granny’s True Confession” is a touching and tragicomic, German-Jewish story from the terrible twentieth century.
Rights sold to: France (Editions du Seuil), Italy (Neri Pozza), The Netherlands (Querido), USA (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Denmark (Tiderne Skifter), Norway (KA Forlag), Taiwan (Yuan-Liou), Korea (ByBooks), Czech Republic (Jota) and Poland (Wydawnictwo Nisza)
About the author:
Irene Dische, born in New York, lives in Berlin and Rhinebeck. Her previous books: Pious Lies (Fromme Lügen, 1989), The Doctor Needs a Home (Der Doktor braucht ein Heim, 1990), A Strange Feeling (Ein fremdes Gefühl, 1993), The Intimate Confessions of Oliver Weinstock (Die intimen Geständnisse des Oliver Weinstock, 1994), The Second Life of Domenico Scarlatti (Das zweite Leben des Domenico Scarlatti, 1995). A Job (Ein Job, 2000) was published by Hoffmann and Campe. |
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