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English
riverrun
13 October 2015
Bavaria, Germany, 1947.

At the end of the war, Afra Zauner returns to her parents' cottage on the edge of Mauther Forest. Unmarried, and pregnant. As she struggles to raise her child, her father's shame, her mother's fury and the loud whispers of the neighbours begin to weigh upon her. She doesn't believe in her sin. But everyone else does.

And someone brings judgement down upon her.

Many years later, Hermann Muller is throwing a drunk out of his tavern. A traveller, who won't stop ranting about a murder left unsolved, about police who never investigated. Out of curiousity, the file is reopened. And in the cold light of hindsight, a chilling realisation creeps upon the community.

No-one ever atoned for Afra's death. But her story is waiting to be told.

Andrea Maria Schenkel returns to the form of her groundbreaking The Murder Farm, narrating through suspects, victims and investigators to lead the reader to their own awful understanding.

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Translated by:  
Imprint:   riverrun
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   111g
ISBN:   9781780877761
ISBN 10:   1780877765
Pages:   144
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   http://www.andreaschenkel.de/7_1_1.html

Andrea Maria Schenkel is the author of The Murder Farm, Ice Cold and Bunker, all of which are phenomenal bestsellers in her native Germany and have been translated all over Europe. She lives near Regensburg, Bavaria, with her family.

Reviews for The Dark Meadow

'Packs a lingering punch . . . Dark Meadow, in its evocative descriptions of postwar life in a German village, in its lack of sentimentality, pathos or melodrama, is a bleakly real portrait of injustice' - Observer, Thriller of the Month 'A superior slice of German noir. Examines the German conscience, as if searching for the psyche behind the Nazi monstrosities . . . Schenkel can be considered as a deeply serious writer. Though her books are short, the impact they achieve undoubtedly merit this status' - Independent


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