The Dark Meadow
$30.86
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2015
Summary
The Dark Meadow: A Bavarian Mystery
Bavaria, Germany, 1947.
At the end of the war, Afra Zauner returns to her parents’ cottage on the edge of Mauther Forest. Unmarried, and pregnant. As she struggles to raise her child, her father’s shame, her mother’s fury and the loud whispers of the neighbours begin to weigh upon her. She doesn’t believe in her sin. But everyone else does.
And someone brings judgement down upon her.
Many years later, Hermann Muller is thro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780877761 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780877765 |
| Author: | Andrea Maria Schenkel, Anthea Bell |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 111g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 9mm |
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Critics Review
‘Packs a lingering punch … Dark Meadow, in its evocative descriptions of postwar life in a
German village, in its lack of sentimentality, pathos or melodrama, is a bleakly real portrait ofinjustice’ - Observer, Thriller of the Month‘A superior slice of German noir. Examines the German conscience, as if searching for thepsyche behind the Nazi monstrosities … Schenkel can be considered as a deeply seriouswriter. Though her books are short, the impact they achieve undoubtedly merit this status’ - IndependentAbout The Author
Andrea Maria Schenkel
Andrea Maria Schenkel is the author of The Murder Farm, Ice Cold and Bunker, all of which are phenomenal bestsellers in her native Germany and have been translated all over Europe. She lives near Regensburg, Bavaria, with her family.
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