Roman elegy
Gruber, Sabine, 1963-2013
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It is 2009: writer Clara Burger arrives in Rome to sort out the affairs and clear the flat of her school friend Ines, prematurely dead from cancer. Sorting through Ines's belongings, Clara finds a manuscript containing not only an autobiographical account of Ines's strange experiences while working as a chambermaid in Rome in the summer of 1978, but also the life story of her former employer, the hotelier Emma Manente.
Main title:
Roman elegy / by Sabine Gruber ; translated by Peter Lewis.
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Imprint:
London : Haus, 2013.
Collation:
320 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781908323101 (hbk)
Dewey class:
833.92FICTION
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
236557