by Siegfried Lenz · Hoffmann u Campe Vlg GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783455042849
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«Schweigeminute» is the short novel by Siegfried Lenz, published by Hoffmann und Campe in hardback (127 pages, in German).
Christian, a school student, falls in love with his young English teacher, Stella Petersen. Their secret relationship is cut short by an accident; at the memorial ceremony, Christian tries to find the words he never said to her. Love, memory and mourning intertwine in restrained, evocative prose.
The work is subtitled Novelle and is set on the Baltic coast; it was originally published in 2008.
For readers of contemporary German fiction and of stories about love and loss.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
