Accident / A Day's News - Hardcover

Christa Wolf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374100462 ISBN 13: 9780374100469

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989

Synopsis

An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

On a flawless spring day in late April, an East German writer awaits a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery and instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and, above all, the importance of each moment lived.

About the Author:

Christa Wolf’s (1929–2011) other works include the ground-breaking Cassandra, Patterns of Childhood and The Quest for Christa T. She has been awarded many prizes, among them the Büchner Prize of the German Academy of Language and Poetry the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Geschwister Scholl Prize of the city of Munich.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0374100462
• ISBN 13: 9780374100469
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128