by Walter Kempowski · Hamlyn · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780600207016
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«Days of Greatness» is the novel by Walter Kempowski, published by Hamlyn in paperback (399 pages).
Set in Rostock before the First World War, it follows the wealthy Kempowski family, owners of a shipping company, and the romantic relationships that cross their circle. The focus falls on the idyll between Karl and Grethe, a young woman from an orderly, religious family, interrupted by the outbreak of war.
A novel in Kempowski's «Deutsche Chronik»; English translation by Leila Vennewitz of the German original «Aus großer Zeit». 1983 edition.
For readers of historical fiction and narrative focused on early twentieth-century German society.
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.
