(MOBI) The Island of Second Sight

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The Island of Second Sight
by Albert Vigoleis Thelen, Donald O. White

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• Awards: BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2013), PEN Translation Prize for Donald O. White (2013), Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize Nominee for Donald O. White (2013)
• Genres: fiction, germany, spain, classics, literature, novels
• Author: Albert Vigoleis Thelen, Donald O. White
• Language: english
• Release date: December 31, 2010
• Publisher: Galileo Publishers
• ISBN: 9781903385067 (1903385067)
• Format: paperback, 816 pages

About The Book

Unavailable to English readers for more than 50 years, The Island of Second Sight is a masterpiece of world literature. Set in the years leading up to World War II, it is the fictionalized account of the time spent in Mallorca by the author and his wife, who experience the most unpredictable and surreal adventures, pursued all the while by Nazis and Francoists. And just as the chaos comes to seem manageable, the Spanish Civil War erupts. Drawing comparisons to Don Quixote and The Man Without Qualities, The Island of Second Sight is a novel of astonishing and singular richness of language and purpose. At once ironic and humanistic, hilarious and profoundly serious, philosophical and grotesque, The Island of Second Sight is a literary tour de force.

Praise for The Island of Second Sight

“A masterpiece…Fabulous in all senses of the word.”

—Iain Bamforth, Times Literary Supplement

“A genuine work of art.”

—Paul Celan

“[The Island of Second Sight] is comparable in profundity as well as in complexity to Mann’s own Magic Mountain. It is in a class with two other massive German masterpieces…: Hermann Broch’s The Death of Virgil and Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities.”

—Allen Guttmann, Amherst Magazine

“There is a widely held misconception that Germans have no sense of humor. Here is evidence to the contrary as Thelen, belatedly, through his translator, gets a chance to show the English speaking world.”

—Anthea Bell, Literary Review

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