Anniversaries

Uwe Johnson

Original title: Jahrestage

first published 1974 Suhrkamp, 2000 hardcover 1703 pages

New York Review Books classics

A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time. As a novel, Uwe Johnson's masterpiece, Anniversaries, is at once daringly simple in conception and wonderfully complex and engaging in effect. Late in 1967, Johnson, already one of the most celebrated German novelists of his generation, set out to write a book that would take the form of an entry for every day o...

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Damion Searls 1 printing we hold · 2018 · NYRB Classics

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Anniversaries edition · 2018 · NYRB Classics · 1668 pages · 9781681372037
Jahrestage edition · 2008 · Suhrkamp Verlag KG · 1734 pages · 9783518460597
Jahrestage. Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl. paperback · 2000 · Suhrkamp · 1703 pages · 9783518397206
Jahrestage. Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl. hardcover · 2000 · Suhrkamp · 1703 pages · 9783518411650

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