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Product Identifiers
PublisheriC-Haus Publishing
ISBN-101908323221
ISBN-139781908323224
eBay Product ID (ePID)217087385
Product Key Features
Book TitleOn the Edge : a Novel
Number of Pages120 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year2016
GenreFiction
AuthorMarkus Werner
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight6.1 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsThe miraculous ease with which this novel combines weighty philosophical issues with a gripping story is a rarity in contemporary German literature.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal833.914
SynopsisThis psychological thriller with a masterly, pulse-quickening plot revolves around two seemingly very different men, who ultimately have much more in common than they realize. Thomas Clarin is a divorce lawyer whose profession has fostered a profound and abiding distrust of marriage. Rejecting the deeper things in life, he embraces the superficial and takes pleasure in one lighthearted affair after another. The older Thomas Loos, on the other hand, is a classics scholar and recent widower who cherishes the notion of true love while he openly resents the modern world around him. With Clarin's flirtatious, roving eye and Loos's bitter grief over the death of his wife, Bettina, it would seem that these men are from two different worlds. But after a chance meeting in the idyllic Swiss village of Montagnola, the two strike up a conversation that reveals unnerving--and ultimately heartbreaking--coincidences. Widely acclaimed as a gem of contemporary German literature, On the Edge is a powerful look at love and loss that begins innocently, then grabs the reader and refuses to let go.
LC Classification NumberPT2685.E6736
