In Times of Fading Light

Literature & Fiction

Ruge, Eugen

Literary

Faber & Faber Fiction

An enthrallingly expansive family saga set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, from a major new international voice
* Over 450,000 copies sold in Germany alone * Rights sold in 20 countries * Winner of the German Book Prize * A PW "First Fiction" pick * In Times of Fading Light begins in September 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel then takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family's history: from Alexander's grandparents' return to the GDR to build the socialist state, to his father's decade spent in a gulag for criticizing the Soviet regime, to his son's desire to leave the political struggles of the twentieth century in the past. With wisdom, humor, and great empathy, Eugen Ruge draws on his own family history as he masterfully brings to life the tragic intertwining of politics, love, and family under the East German regime.

In Times of Fading Light: A Novel (Lannan Translation Selection (Graywolf Hardcover))

Graywolf Press

An enthrallingly expansive family saga set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, from a major new international voice * Over 450,000 copies sold in Germany alone * Rights sold in 20 countries * Winner of the German Book Prize * APW "First Fiction" pick * In Times of Fading Light begins in September 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel then takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family's history: from Alexander's grandparents' return to the GDR to build the socialist state, to his father's decade spent in a gulag for criticizing the Soviet regime, to his son's desire to leave the political struggles of the twentieth century in the past. With wisdom, humor, and great empathy, Eugen Ruge draws on his own family history as he masterfully brings to life the tragic intertwining of politics, love, and family under the East German regime.

In Times of Fading Light: A Novel (Lannan Translation)

A witty, philosophical novel by the author of the internationally bestselling In Times of Fading Light
Sometimes a cat comes into your life when you least expect it.
An unnamed writer finds himself in Cabo de Gata, a sleepy, worn-down Andalusian fishing village. He's left behind his life in Berlin, which it turns out wasn't much--an ex-girlfriend, a neighborhood that had become too trendy for his taste. Surrounded by a desolate landscape that is scoured by surprisingly cold winds (not at all what he expected of southern Spain), he faces his daily failures: to connect with the innkeeper or any of the townsfolk, who all seem to be hiding something; to learn Spanish; to keep warm; to write. At last he succeeds in making an unlikely connection with one of the village's many feral cats. Does the cat have a message for him? And will their tenuous relationship be enough to turn his life around?
With sharp intelligence and wry humor, Eugen Ruge's Cabo de Gata proposes the biggest questions and illustrates how achieving happiness sometimes means giving oneself up to the foreign and the unknown.

Cabo de Gata: A Novel

An enthrallingly expansive family saga set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, from a major new international voice.

HighBridge Audio

Metropol

Rowohlt Verlag, GmbH

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In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts: Roman einer Familie

Genre Fiction

Cabo de Gata (German Edition)

Contemporary

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In Zeiten Des Abnehmenden Lichts

Der Untergang eines Landes. Der Roman einer Familie. Die Großeltern haben noch für den Kommunismus gebrannt, als sie aus dem mexikanischen Exil kamen, um ein neues Deutschland aufzubauen. Der Sohn kehrte aus der Sowjetunion heim: mit einer russischen Frau, der Erinnerung ans Lager und dennoch mit dem Glauben an die Möglichkeit, alles besser zu machen. Dem Enkel bleibt nur ein Platz in der Realität der DDR. Sie wird ihm immer enger, und er geht in den Westen: an ebendem Tag, an dem sich Familie, Freunde und Feinde versammeln, um den neunzigsten Geburtstag des Patriarchen zu begehen. Von den Kritikern hymnisch gefeiert, ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis 2011 - ein halbes Jahrhundert gelebter Geschichte, ein Familienroman voller überraschender Wendungen: groß durch seine Reife, seinen Humor, seine Menschlichkeit. Der große DDR-Buddenbrooks-Roman. Iris Radisch, Die Zeit

In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts

Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

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In Times of Fading Light

In Times of Fading Light: A Novel (Lannan Translation Selection (Graywolf Hardcover))

In Times of Fading Light: A Novel (Lannan Translation)

Cabo de Gata: A Novel

In Times of Fading Light

Metropol

In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts: Roman einer Familie

Cabo de Gata (German Edition)

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In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts