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Soul of Wood (A collection of stories by Jakov Lind)
by Lind, Jakov
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 041357850X
- ISBN 13
- 9780413578501
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Synopsis
Jakov Lind (1927–2007) was born Heinz Jakov Landwirth into an educated Jewish family in Vienna. After the 1938 Anschluss, Lind and one of his sisters were sent for safety to Holland, from where they were join their parents in Palestine; this proved impossible, and following the occupation of Holland, Lind, who was already fluent in Dutch, had no choice but to go into hiding. Taking the name of Jan Gerrit Overbeek—“sailing under a false self,” as he would later describe it—he worked on a barge traveling up and down the Rhine. When the Allies began to bomb the industrial cities of the Rhine, Lind/Overbeek moved to Germany, where he was employed by a Nazi government ministry in Berlin. The end of the war allowed Lind to join his family in Palestine, but it was not long before he returned to Europe, studying drama in Vienna and, in 1954, settling in London, where he began work on the stories that were published in 1962 as Soul of Wood. Lind’s other books in German include the novels Landscape in Concrete and Ergo and, in English, four volumes of autobiography, two novels, and numerous stories. Lind was also a playwright and film director, as well as a talented visual artist. In a eulogy delivered at Lind’s funeral, Anthony Rudolf described Lind as “A coyote, a trickster…. A wicked smile played around his mouth, while witty aphorisms and deep insights tripped off his lips. He emanated inner strength—and an electric intelligence that we all wanted to emulate.” Ralph Manheim (1907–1992) translated more than one hundred books, primarily from German and French. His first major commision was Mein Kampf , which was published in the United States in 1943. Among his prizewinning translations are The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, Castle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke. After his death, the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for lifetime acheivement in translation—which he won in 1988—was renamed in his memory. Michael Krüger is the editor of the journal Akzente and has been director of the German publishing house Carl Hanser Verlag since 1986. He has published several works of fiction and poetry, and was awarded the Prix Medicis étranger in 1996 for his novel Himmelfarb .
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011373
- Title
- Soul of Wood (A collection of stories by Jakov Lind)
- Author
- Lind, Jakov
- Illustrator
- Jakov Lind cover artist;
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Edition
- 1st Thus Methuen 1985 Edition
- ISBN 10
- 041357850X
- ISBN 13
- 9780413578501
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover, tight square & clean, flat spine, 186 pages, Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear. "Like Franz Kafka's, Lind's is a world in which the impossible happens: the Redeemer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo
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