Imprint: Penguin
Published: 02/06/2016
ISBN: 9780241977781
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
Weight: 138g
RRP: £9.99
'Sofka gazes ahead, with her family's future before her . . .'
Sofka Dorn, widowed matriarch of a prosperous German Jewish family living in England, rules her four children with an exacting hand. Frederick, the eldest son, is a disgracefully charming 'ladies' man, and like his flirtatious sister, Betty, is adored and indulged by his mother. Alfred and Mimi, both steady and solitary, are a disappointment to Sofka, who values strength and boldness of spirit. But, as their story unfolds, it becomes clear that the lives each must live and the times each must endure will change them in ways even Sofka could never have imagined.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 02/06/2016
ISBN: 9780241977781
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
Weight: 138g
RRP: £9.99
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
Dazzling.
Works so brilliantly.
Brookner has a merciless comic gift.