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by Hubert Fichte Translated by M Chalmers Original title: Das Waisenhaus
Detlev is eight. Uprooted from the home of his Protestant grandparents in Hamburg, he has been surreptitiously deposited by his mother in a Catholic orphanage in Bavaria. As he waits for his mother to deliver him, he gets bird droppings on his hands. This provokes, at least in his mind, (more...)
by Hubert Fichte Translated by M Chalmers Original title: Detlevs Imitationen
In narrated time, one night divides Detlev’s Imitations from The Orphanage. For Fichte, the two works were separated by the popular success of his ‘beat’ novel Die Palette, (more...)
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