The Tower
  • Published: 1 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141979250
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1024
  • RRP: $42.99
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The Tower

Tales from a Lost Country

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6 Nov 2014
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1 Dec 2016
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The German bestseller paints a powerful, candid portrait of a family in crisis amid the turbulent fall of the Berlin Wall

In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989.
  • Published: 1 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141979250
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1024
  • RRP: $42.99
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Praise for The Tower

Brilliantly done . . . shattering

Sunday Times

Following a Dresden family in the years leading up to 1989, Tellkamp's masterful novel reconstructs the trials of everyday life in the German Democratic Republic, portrayed without nostalgia

Sunday Telegraph

A panoramic, immersive chronicle

Independent, Books of the Year

The Tower brings a German ghost to life . . . it stands as a monument against forgetting

Le Monde

Beautiful, rich . . . many scenes burst with Kafkaesque madness

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