by Thornton Wilder · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783436018566
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«Der achte Schöpfungstag» is the novel by Thornton Wilder, published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (360 pages, in German).
Set in a mining town in Illinois at the beginning of the 20th century, the story starts from the alleged murder of a family man by another man and the flight of the accused, John Ashley, on the eve of his execution. It follows the fate of the two families and combines criminal mystery with philosophical reflection and the portrait of an era.
German translation of the English original The Eighth Day, by Herberth E. and Marlys Herlitschka.
For readers of mystery novels, family sagas and classic American literature.
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
