The Blindness of the Heart

by Julia Franck

Book Overview

Winner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe's freshest young voices--a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family. In the devastating opening scene, a woman named Helene stands with her seven-year-old son in a provincial German railway station in 1945, amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west. Having survived with him through the horror and deprivation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802119670
• ISBN13: 9780802119674
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"