- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Export / Airport ed edition (10 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297851306
- ISBN-13: 978-0297851301
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.3 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,109,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"For this story of a half-Jewish, half-German clan Eve Menasse eschews linear narrative in favour of tales about the different members that weave into one another in a manner characteristic of shared family remembrance. And what characters they are.... the mixture is enjoyably leavened with black humour." (RACHAEL HORE THE GUARDIAN )
"Vienna by Eva Menasse is a disputatious saga that tracks the trials and tribulations of a Jewish-Austrian family during the 20th century." (THE OBSERVER )
"set in a vividly imagined bourgeois Vienna, with it's bridge parties, tennis clubs, and an everyday anti-Semitism that's shocking in its casualness." (TIME OUT )
"a remarkable achievement... the rewards are many and various." (BARRY FORSHAW THE INDEPENDENT )
"Just when you thought there was nothing new to write about the Jewish experience during the Second World War comes a novel that turns convention on its head... Menasse teases out this generational paradox in a clever novel full of gentle humour, unpredictable twists and memorable characters." (DAILY TELEGRAPH )
"delightfully told... surprising, funny and tragic.. a character-led story fully of sparkling vignettes" (YORKSHIRE EVENING POST )
"Vienna's early sections show the diverse nature of this adventure for these forced migrants... Eva Menasse's tone is often comic, but her theme is serious." (TLS )
"a droll but unsettling take on the city's monster shadowed history, told through the escapades of a saltily eccentric part-Jewish clan." (BOYD TONKIN THE INDEPENDENT ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Vienna by Eva Menasse is a disputatious saga that tracks the trials and tribulations of a Jewish-Austrian family during the 20th century." (THE OBSERVER )
"set in a vividly imagined bourgeois Vienna, with it's bridge parties, tennis clubs, and an everyday anti-Semitism that's shocking in its casualness." (TIME OUT )
"a remarkable achievement... the rewards are many and various." (BARRY FORSHAW THE INDEPENDENT )
"Just when you thought there was nothing new to write about the Jewish experience during the Second World War comes a novel that turns convention on its head... Menasse teases out this generational paradox in a clever novel full of gentle humour, unpredictable twists and memorable characters." (DAILY TELEGRAPH )
"delightfully told... surprising, funny and tragic.. a character-led story fully of sparkling vignettes" (YORKSHIRE EVENING POST )
"Vienna's early sections show the diverse nature of this adventure for these forced migrants... Eva Menasse's tone is often comic, but her theme is serious." (TLS )
"a droll but unsettling take on the city's monster shadowed history, told through the escapades of a saltily eccentric part-Jewish clan." (BOYD TONKIN THE INDEPENDENT ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
YORKSHIRE EVENING POST
"delightfully told... surprising, funny and tragic.. a character-led story fully of sparkling vignettes>2
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Vienna is Menasse's first novel. Set out as a series of vignettes, it covers experiences and characters from a half Jewish family in Vienna from the 1930s through to the present day.
At times richly funny, at other times dryly anti-semitic, each episode helps to build a picture of a sprawling family struggling to ascertain its religious identity in modern Vienna. While some episodes and characters are definitely more compelling than others, the novel is fascinating for its refusal to be drawn into Austria's Nazi era, lingering instead on the post war experience of accommodating or exposing former Nazis. It makes for a new twist on literature touching on World War 2 and is all the more effective for it. Though long, this is worth the read.
At times richly funny, at other times dryly anti-semitic, each episode helps to build a picture of a sprawling family struggling to ascertain its religious identity in modern Vienna. While some episodes and characters are definitely more compelling than others, the novel is fascinating for its refusal to be drawn into Austria's Nazi era, lingering instead on the post war experience of accommodating or exposing former Nazis. It makes for a new twist on literature touching on World War 2 and is all the more effective for it. Though long, this is worth the read.
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