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Thomas Mann's Overcoat by Istvan Voros (2025, Hardcover)

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Thomas Manns Overcoat by Ottilie Mulzet, István Vörös. Author Ottilie Mulzet, István Vörös. Title Thomas Manns Overcoat. Only the coat has a life of its own, as Marci soon finds out. That's not all: he discovers a mysterious little white elephant in the family courtyard, which no one else can see.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSeagull Books

ISBN-101803094109

ISBN-139781803094106

eBay Product ID (ePID)26065854088

Product Key Features

Book TitleThomas Mann's Overcoat

Number of Pages412 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMiscellaneous, General

Publication Year2025

GenreForeign Language Study, Fiction

AuthorIstvan Voros

Book SeriesThe Hungarian List Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight20.5 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal894.51134

Table Of Content1.Thomas Mann's Overcoat 2.White Mud 3.Refugees of Eastern Munich 4.The Elephant Library 5.A Dwarf's Leather Coat 6.Contract for the Rights of Devils 7.The Island of The Dead 8.A Shadow Fallen from The Sky/Sky-Fallen Shadow 9.The Snobbery of Reality 10.Sunbathing Pigs 11.Presence-Shadow 12.Conversation with Hannibal 13.The Book of Future Time 14.On the Migration of Souls 15.In the Black Elephant 16.Helping the Piglets Escape 17.The Bell of History 18.Autumn Sacrifice 19.The Dilemma of Closed Eyes 20.In Relation to Grey Snow 21.Sliding into An Uncertified Existence 22.Faust's Overcoat

SynopsisThis novel seamlessly blends the intellectual musings of Thomas Mann with a Hungarian folktale exploring the boundaries of reality and fantasy. In this captivating and whimsical novel, the German novelist and critic Thomas Mann is visiting his tailor, Klaus, to be measured for a new overcoat, but his mind is full of thoughts of his new novel and meditations on the state of Europe after World War I. His tailor, though, entraps him in wily dialogue with mysterious claims about angels threading a strand of their hair through all of God's creations. Mann becomes further entangled with this provocative artisan through a mysterious dream in which he is asked to draft a contract for the Rights of Devils. At the same time, the impoverished mother of five-year-old Marci Tamás, living in a tiny Hungarian village, struggles to find the little boy a winter coat. Marci has stopped growing, so the coat she finds--belonging to a former circus dwarf--should suffice for life. Only the coat has a life of its own, as Marci soon finds out. That's not all: he discovers a mysterious little white elephant in the family courtyard, which no one else can see. Determined to save the family's three piglets from being slaughtered, he enlists this strange creature in a daring collective escape. Written by one of Hungary's most audacious literary voices, Thomas Mann's Overcoat is at once a homage to the great German novelist as well as an Ars Poetica that embraces excess, whimsy, and folk poetry and refuses the strictures of realism.

LC Classification NumberPH3351.V757T4 2024