The sleep of the righteous / Wolfgang Hilbig ; translated by Isabel Fargo Cole.

• The place of storms -- The bottles in the cellar -- Coming -- The sleep of the righteous -- The afternoon -- The memories -- The dark man.

• Doppelgangers, a murderer's guilt, pulp noir, fanatical police, and impossible romances - these are the pieces from which German master Wolfgang Hilbig builds a divided nation battling its demons. Delving deep into the psyches of both East and West Germany, The Sleep of the Righteous reveals a powerful, apocalyptic account of the century-defining nation's trajectory from 1945 to 1989. From a youth in a war-scarred industrial town to wearying labor as a factory stoker, surreal confrontations with the Stasi, and, finally, a conflicted escape to the West, Hilbig creates a cipher that is at once himself and so many of his fellow Germans. 

Ämnesord

Germany (East)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Germany (West)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Genre

Romaner  (saogf)

Short stories.  (gsafd)

Autobiographical fiction.  (lcgft)

Fiction.  (fast)

Fictional autobiographies.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

He.01 Skönlitteratur: engelska: romaner och noveller

Klassifikation

823 (DDC)

He.01 (kssb/8)