PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ぺん/ふぉーくなーしょう(ふぃくしょんぶもん)
Edition 1 (1981)
FictionNovelAmerican Literature Award
Winners
1 peopleAn experimental postwar novel about memory and identity in Germany. Through fragmented narration and multiple viewpoints, it explores family history, national wounds, and the rift and reconciliation between language and culture.
A fragmented novel tracing the scars of postwar Germany.
252 pages
postwar memorynational identityfamily historyhistorical responsibility