Winner of two major European prizes, this funny, quirky chronicle of a family of Dutch clockmakers is a bestseller in the Netherlands. Sixty-year-old Nathan Hollander is stranded in a winter blizzard with his young niece, Nina, in the deserted house of his late Uncle Herman. As they wait for the weather to improve, Nathan tells Nina the story of their forefathers - a family of clockmakers who came to the Netherlands from Eastern Europe and then emigrated to America before WWII. An extraordinary and rich family ...
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Winner of two major European prizes, this funny, quirky chronicle of a family of Dutch clockmakers is a bestseller in the Netherlands. Sixty-year-old Nathan Hollander is stranded in a winter blizzard with his young niece, Nina, in the deserted house of his late Uncle Herman. As they wait for the weather to improve, Nathan tells Nina the story of their forefathers - a family of clockmakers who came to the Netherlands from Eastern Europe and then emigrated to America before WWII. An extraordinary and rich family history emerges. An epic family saga, a Gothic novel gone haywire, a very human story and a chronicle of the twentieth century, In Babylon is already set to be a classic European novel. A piece of very solid, traditional storytelling combined with a very funny, sensual magical realism. A brilliant merging of the lightness of popular American writing and the depth of European literature.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. CH4-A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black and white photo illustrated black wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with a very light crease along the front spine edge plus there is a very, very light bump at the back top right corner. Translated from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. A novel that is a saga of a Jewish family as it wanders from Poland to Holland to the United States. It begins when an uncle and niece become snowbound in a mountain house. The uncle passes the time telling her the family story. It begins with one young man walking from Poland to Holland in 1648 where the following generatiions became intinerant clockmakers. The story continues on through the uncle's parents time in turn-of-the-century Rotterdam and tehn the family's role in the Manhattan Project. Acknowledgments, 417p.
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