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German Lessons - Kieran Donaghue

German Lessons

By: Kieran Donaghue

eBook | 29 July 2019

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A novel in which the events take place during the period Autumn 1932 – Spring 1933. Frank Hannaford, a young Australian from a sheltered Catholic background, is searching for a deeper version of himself in 1930s Germany. At the university and in an organisation of young Catholic men he finds friendship and a new confidence in his own resources. A German identity begins to form, surprising and delighting him. But he also struggles with the unexpected possibilities of love, and with political events and commitments he does not fully understand. The Nazis come to power, previously strong opposition from the Catholic Church evaporates, and Frank is left floundering, at odds both with himself and with the young woman whose friendship he most values.

A Bildungsroman set in a time of social and political upheaval.      

 

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What will you do when they come for you? From interwar Australia to Nazi Germany, this novel spans cultures as a world of youthful exuberance disintegrates into burning buildings, broken bodies, clerical submission, and swastikas. German Lessons finely renders personal intimacies that provide premonitions for our unsettled times.

Professor Paul James, Director, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University.

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