by Matt Cohen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442725762
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«Der Brief» is Matt Cohen's novel, published by btb bei Goldmann in paperback (410 pages, in German).
Carl McKelvey returns to West Gull, the town where he grew up, determined to start over. But the town remembers the accident in which, drunk, he caused his mother's death, the collapse of his marriage, and his daughter's disappointment. His return, however, ends up having a purifying effect on him.
Translated from English by Klaus Pemsel, this is the first German edition (2000) of the original novel «Elizabeth and After» (1999), winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in Canadian narrative and in stories of return and reconciliation with the past.
Matthew Cohen was a Canadian writer who published both mainstream literature under his own name and children's literature under the pseudonym Teddy Jam.
