by Walter Kempowski · btb Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442721030
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«Schöne Aussicht» is the family novel by Walter Kempowski, published by btb Verlag in paperback (540 pages, in German).
The action takes place in Rostock after the First World War: Karl and Grethe Kempowski, a couple of bourgeois origin, raise their three children in a working-class district despite financial hardship. The novel portrays with irony their daily life and that of those around them as Germany enters the era of Nazism.
«Schöne Aussicht» is the second instalment of Walter Kempowski's series «Deutsche Chronik». The work was originally published in 1981; this edition is from 1997.
It is a work for readers of family sagas and historical fiction focused on interwar Germany.
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.
