Julia Franck Die Mittagsfrau
Julia Franck Die Mittagsfrau Novel, 432 pages S. Fischer Verlag, 2007
The author:
Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. She studied German literature, Philosophy and Anthropology of Native Americans at the FU Berlin. She has received several awards, including the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize in 2004 and the Roswitha Medal of the City of Gandersheim in 2005. She spent the year 2005 in the Villa Massimo in Rome. Her most recent publications are Liebediener (1999), Bauchlandung. Geschichten zum Anfassen (2000) and Lagerfeuer (2003). For her novel Die Mittagsfrau (2007) Julia Franck received the German Book Award 2007.
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Helene’s idyllic childhood in rural Germany comes to an abrupt end on the outbreak of the First World War. Her father is sent to the Eastern Front, returning home only to die, and her Jewish mother withdraws into confusion to escape the neighbours’ hostility. Helene calls her blind in the heart, and fears her mother’s growing coldness, as she hardly seems to notice her daughters any more. Helene wants to study medicine, an unusual dream for a woman at the beginning of the last century. After her father’s death, she and her sister Martha move to the Berlin of the roaring twenties, and while Martha meets up with her beloved Leontine again, Helene meets Carl. When he dies shortly before their engagement, she loses all sense of existence. She buries herself in her work and hopes to survive life. A certain Wilhelm introduces himself at a party, an enthusiastic engineer who wants to build autobahns and marry Helene. The fast-failing marriage takes Helene to Stettin, where her son is born. The love that her son demands, the closeness he needs become increasingly unbearable for her, and she soon can’t stop thinking about escape. Then she makes a colossal decision.
Two world wars, hopes, loneliness and love – and the realisation that all can be lost. Julia Franck tells the story of a life caught up in the machinery of a terrible age. An unusual family novel, a forceful epos and the story of a fascinating woman.
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Fiction
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| Julia Franck Bauchlandung
Belly Landing
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Julia Franck Bauchlandung Short stories, 128 pages FTV, 2011
Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. She studied German literature, Philosophy and Anthropology of Native Americans at the FU Berlin. She has received several awards, including the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize in 2004 and the Roswitha Medal of the City of Gandersheim in 2005. She spent the year 2005 in the Villa Massimo in Rome. Her most recent publications are Liebediener (1999), Bauchlandung. Geschichten zum Anfassen (2000) and Lagerfeuer (2003). For her novel Die Mittagsfrau (2007) Julia Franck received the German Book Award 2007.
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Korea: Moonye
Netherlands: Wereldbibliotheek
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Stories about love, or what you might call love.
In these stories full of erotic sensuality, Julia Franck writes about veiled lusts and open desire, about yearnings that leave behind only tristesse, and about the lure of the forbidden.
‘Only in the work of Julia Franck is there such love and such hate.’
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Fiction
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| Julia Franck Der neue Koch
The New Cook
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Julia Franck Der neue Koch Short stories, 160 pages FTV, 2009
Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. She studied German literature, Philosophy and Anthropology of Native Americans at the FU Berlin. She has received several awards, including the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize in 2004 and the Roswitha Medal of the City of Gandersheim in 2005. She spent the year 2005 in the Villa Massimo in Rome. Her most recent publications are Liebediener (1999), Bauchlandung. Geschichten zum Anfassen (2000) and Lagerfeuer (2003). For her novel Die Mittagsfrau (2007) Julia Franck received the German Book Award 2007.
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Outside the wide bay, inside the reception of a cramped hotel: between them stretches a stage on which the regular guests whisper their prompts year after year. A young woman has inherited the hotel from her mother but has no interest in tea dances. And then there’s the new chef, who likes it hot and spicy and wants to take over the show from the kitchen. He already has the regulars on his side…
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Fiction
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| Julia Franck Lagerfeuer
Campfire
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Julia Franck Lagerfeuer Novel, 336 pages FTV, 2011
Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. She studied German literature, Philosophy and Anthropology of Native Americans at the FU Berlin. She has received several awards, including the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize in 2004 and the Roswitha Medal of the City of Gandersheim in 2005. She spent the year 2005 in the Villa Massimo in Rome. Her most recent publications are Liebediener (1999), Bauchlandung. Geschichten zum Anfassen (2000) and Lagerfeuer (2003). For her novel Die Mittagsfrau (2007) Julia Franck received the German Book Award 2007.
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Spain: Tusquets
UK: Harvill Secker
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At the end of the 1970s, Nelly Senff finally has the tortures of the emigration process behind her and manages to leave East Berlin with her children. Now she’s in the West, but for now West Germany is the Berlin-Marienfelde refugee reception camp. Julia Franck tells the story of four people in a place of uncertainty and transition, a place where life stories take decisive turns.
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Fiction
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| Julia Franck Liebediener
Love on Demand
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Julia Franck Liebediener Novel, 240 pages FTV, 2007
The author:
Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. She studied American and German literature and philosophy at the FU Berlin. She has received several awards, including the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize in 2004 and the Roswitha Medal of the City of Gandersheim in 2005. She spent the year 2005 in the Villa Massimo in Rome. Her most recent publications are Liebediener (1999), Bauchlandung. Geschichten zum Anfassen (2000) and Lagerfeuer (2003).
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Netherlands: Wereldbibliotheek
Taiwan: IFront
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When her neighbour Charlotte dies in a road accident, Beyla moves into her apartment and finds herself in the middle of her dead predecessor’s life. She falls in love with the mysterious Albert, who she saw at Charlotte’s funeral. Only gradually does she find out who he really is, and what role Charlotte played in his life. “Liebediener” was originally published by DuMont. Rights are now being controlled by S. Fischer.
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