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The Story of Mr Sommer (Paperback)

by Patrick Suskind (Author), "Sempe" (Illustrator), Michael Hofmann (Translator)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition (3 Nov 2003)
  • ISBN-10: 0747566755
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747566755
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24,156 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A master of the deceptively simple tale. Suskind meditates on the nature of the most basic emotions, weaving a remarkable imagination into the strangest of half-didactic, half-humorous fables' The Times

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A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes - father, mother, brother, sister, a house on a lake, tree-climbing, going to the races, music lessons, a bicycle, a crush on a girl in the class - is bedevilled by the mystifying appearances of the eccentric Mr. Sommer. Moving through the landscape in silent haste, like a man possessed, with his empty rucksack and his long, odd-looking walking stick, Mr Sommer runs like a black thread through the boys days.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A memorable booklet, 29 Nov 2004
By Antal, Daniel (Budapest, Hungary) - See all my reviews
I received this booklet as a birthday present from a friend and read it in Hungarian. This is a beautiful short story, a middle aged man's recollections to his childhood with the omnipresence of Mr Sommer, a restless wanderer of the countryside and a ghost of passing away. I cannot rate the English translation, but the book itself is beautiful, touching, and given the story's contrast with Mr Sommer's light but irresistable presence, a perfect book for such an occasion that put it into my hands. Sampé's illustrations are beautiful. (I am sure that the German original's language gives a perfect rhytm to the story. Dezso Tandori, the translator is one of the greatest living Hungarian poets, so I just hope that the English version is as good as mine.)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a little pearl, 6 Oct 1999
This book is really a little pearl because of the illustrations and because of the story. Its again about being different and being lonely. Suskind treats solitude like no one else, I think. Through the child eyes, you feel your own innocence, or indiference. Who never met Mr Sommer?
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars well written, sweet and funny. Go for it., 11 Sep 2005
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I bought this book because I liked the picture on the cover. It's a lovely little book about the simple life of a boy. You can read it in one afternoon.
The best part is definitelly the chapter about the piano lessons and the music teacher. Genius writing.
Go for it!!
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