Marrow and Bone

by Walter Kempowski

Book Overview

A moving, darkly funny road trip novel about World War II, returning to one's birthplace, and coming to terms with tragedy.

West Germany, 1988, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall: Jonathan Fabrizius, a middle-aged erstwhile journalist, has a comfortable existence in Hamburg, bankrolled by his furniture-manufacturing uncle. He lives with his girlfriend Ulla in a grand, decrepit prewar house that just by chance escaped annihilation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681374358
• ISBN13: 9781681374352
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.9"