by Anna Enquist · Luchterhand Literaturverlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783630868578
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Das Meisterstück» is the novel by Anna Enquist, published by Luchterhand Literaturverlag in hardback (315 pages, in German).
The painter Johan Steenkamer, very self-assured, wants to surpass with his work his father, also an artist, who abandoned the family. Three days before his big exhibition, the father's return from America unsettles the family; Oskar, the overlooked brother, finds in the museum a painting by the father very similar to one by Johan and plans to bring it to the show.
Original title: «Het meesterstuk» (Dutch, 1994). This German edition, translated by Hanni Ehlers, was published in 1995 and won the DebutantenPrijs.
For readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy stories of family, art, and rivalry between generations.
Anna Enquist is the pen name of one of the more popular authors in the Netherlands, Christa Widlund-Broer. She is known for both her poetry and her novels.
