The Blind Side of the Heart

Julia Franck, Anthea Bell

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Vintage
01 September 2010

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

An international bestseller, great family novel, a powerful portrayal of an era, and the story of a fascinating woman.

Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns.

This is a tale of hope, loneliness and love, and of a life lived in terrible times. It is a great family novel, a powerful portrayal of an era, and the story of a fascinating woman.

Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010.

By: Julia Franck
Translated by: Anthea Bell
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9780099524236
ISBN 10: 0099524236
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 01 September 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. She studied the anthropology of Native Americans, philosophy, and German language and literature at the Free University of Berlin. The Blind Side of the Heart won the German Book Prize, Germany's most prestigious literary award. She lives in Berlin.

Reviews for The Blind Side of the Heart

The opening of Julia Frank's novel is among the most powerful in recent years, a narrative so assured that the reader is gripped...This is a great, big silence-breaker of a novel, a laser beam into the German darkness from a writer who, one feels, has a great deal more to say -- Norman Lebrecht * Evening Standard * Franck's command of the language of misery and loss is awesome, but so is her gift for describing the warmth of burgeoning life when things are going right -- Melissa Katsoulis * The Times * One of the most haunting works I have ever read about 20th century Germany...The book's moral perspective is faultless, as is Franck's sensitivity to character, sexuality and the struggle to be a free woman in a fascist society...The Blind Side of the Heart is a masterpiece -- Julia Pascal * The Independent * It is not surprising that this book won the German Book Prize... It is a rich moving and complex novel -- Allan Massie * The Scotsman * Elegant novel ... Franck's great strength is her ability to place her characters in unenviable situations yet retain the reader's sympathy -- Gordon Darroch * Herald *