by Walter Kempowski · A. Knaus · tapa dura · ISBN 9783813500196
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«Aus großer Zeit» is the historical novel by Walter Kempowski published by A. Knaus in hardback, with 447 pages, in German.
The novel focuses on the Kempowski family of Rostock, led by the shipowner Robert William. Anna, his wife, has a friend from the theatre; Robert, his own adventures. In 1913 the son Karl meets Grethe de Bonsac in the Baltic, pious and orderly. The First World War cuts the relationship short: Karl enlists as a volunteer and Grethe serves in a nursery.
First volume of the six-part series Deutsche Chronik; first edition 1978.
For readers of historical novels and family sagas set in Germany and the First World War.
Walter Kempowski was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle and the monumental Echolot ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War.
