by Birgit Vanderbeke · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726952756
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«Mexilhão para a ceia» is the novel by Birgit Vanderbeke, published by Editorial Teorema in paperback (118 pages, in Portuguese).
A mother and her two teenage children wait for the father to come to dinner; in the centre of the table a pot of mussels steams. As the wait drags on, conversation and silences reveal the rigidity and cracks of a family subjected to paternal authority.
The work was originally published in German in 1990 under the title «Das Muschelessen» and was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
For those seeking a short contemporary German classic that portrays family dynamics.
Birgit Vanderbeke was a German writer.
