The House of the Deaf Man (Paperback)

Name: The House of the Deaf Man (Paperback)
Brand: Peter Kristúfek; Julia Sherwood; P A Sherwood
SKU: 43904679
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Alfonz Trnovský, a general practitioner in the small town of Brezany, has spent his whole life pretending to be radiantly happy and contented, unburdened by history and all its abysses, twists, and turns, while the reality is quite different. He has refused to listen to his conscience as the 20th century hurtled by: four political regimes, the Jewish Question, the political trials of the 1950s, the secret police after 1968—and all the women he loved. But whose bones does his son accidentally stumble upon buried in the garden? The House of the Deaf Man takes readers on a tour of Slovak history from the 1930s to the 1990s. It is narrated by the doctor’s son, Adam, who comes to say goodbye to the house from which he has never managed to break free. He tells the story of a father-son relationship and of surprising connections between the past and memory.

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Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction
Fiction
Genre
Literature & Fiction
Pub date
2015-03-01
Pages
560
Reading level
General

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9781909844278. New condition. Paperback. Pages: 560. 560 p. Alfonz Trnovsky, a genial and respected general practitioner in Breany, a small (fictitious) town in western Slovakia, spent his whole life pretending to be radiantly happy and contented, while the reality was quite different. He turned a deaf ear to his conscience as the 20th century hurtled by: four political regimes, the Holocaust, the political trials of the 1950s, the secret police before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia...and the women he loved. But whose are the bones his son accidentally stumbles on buried in the garden? As he sets out to unravel this mystery, the son discovers other skeletons in his father's cupboard. His quest includes a detour to the Prado in Madrid, where the father's favourite Goya paintings, the Black Series, are now exhibited after being removed from the walls of its original location, known as the Casa del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man).

Alfonz Trnovský, a general practitioner in the small town of Brezany, has spent his whole life pretending to be radiantly happy and contented, unburdened by history and all its abysses, twists, and turns, while the reality is quite different. He has refused to listen to his conscience as the 20th century hurtled by: four political regimes, the Jewish Question, the political trials of the 1950s, the secret police after 1968—and all the women he loved. But whose bones does his son accidentally stumble upon buried in the garden? The House of the Deaf Man takes readers on a tour of Slovak history from the 1930s to the 1990s. It is narrated by the doctor’s son, Adam, who comes to say goodbye to the house from which he has never managed to break free. He tells the story of a father-son relationship and of surprising connections between the past and memory.

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Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Fiction

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Pub date

2015-03-01

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