Lost

Hans Ulrich Treichel

earliest edition we have, 1999 Vintage, 2000 144 pages

Not since The Reader has a work of fiction so stunningly evoked the guilt and shame that resounds in postwar Germany. In this debut novel of astonishing originality, we bear witness to a family ravaged with regret at the loss of their child.As a young boy, the narrator learns that his parents lost their firstborn son while fleeing the advancing Russian Army in 1945. Though his family has comfortably settled in Westph...

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This book in English

Carol Brown Janeway 1 printing we hold · 1999 · Pantheon

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Editions we hold

Lost edition · 2010 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307557582
Lost paperback · 2001 · Picador · 100 pages · 9780330480376
Lost hardcover · 2000 · Picador · 160 pages · 9780330390934
Lost edition · 2000 · Vintage · 144 pages · 9780375706226
Lost edition · 1999 · Pantheon · 136 pages · 9780375406270

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