The novel is set just after World War Two, in a fictitious Germany. The Allies have decided to punish the country for Nazi war crimes by forcing it to develop back in to a pre-industrial society. All the achievements of technology - railways, streets, power, ships - have been destroyed or suspended, and in the village where The Kitahara Syndrome is set, villagers are forced to farm the land with primative tools and scavenge scrap yards. Memories of German war crimes are kept alive by bizarre rituals of remembrance: ...
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The novel is set just after World War Two, in a fictitious Germany. The Allies have decided to punish the country for Nazi war crimes by forcing it to develop back in to a pre-industrial society. All the achievements of technology - railways, streets, power, ships - have been destroyed or suspended, and in the village where The Kitahara Syndrome is set, villagers are forced to farm the land with primative tools and scavenge scrap yards. Memories of German war crimes are kept alive by bizarre rituals of remembrance: villagers are forced to dress as concentration camp inmates and act out the ceremonies of torture. This is the background to the story which focuses on three characters and the strange links that bind them.
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Add this copy of The Dog King to cart. $12.48, very good condition, Sold by Booksleuth rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chatham, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Vintage.
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Very Good. Ex-Library Library marks are pocket, and indexing sticker, book is very clean. Winner of Europe's Aristeion Prize, about a ruin of a town, presided by the title character, and inhabited by a cast of characters slipping back to the Dark Ages. Location FF.
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As New in As New jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First American edition, stated. First printing. Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Quarter black over gray paper-covered boards, with silver spine lettering. Publisher's original price of $24.00 on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, unread copy. Octavo, 355 pages. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. THE DOG KING is set in postwar Bavaria and follows a young man s descent through a devastated landscape ruled by a deranged baron. Christoph Ransmayr (b. 1954) is an Austrian novelist known for blending myth and history; he shared the European Union's Aristeion Prize with Salman Rushdie. This is his second novel published in English translation. [Ferry/0]
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Mary Javorek (Jacket Photo) Like New in Like New jacket. Book. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 355 pp. Stated first US edition! Clean, fresh copy and dust jacket with very minor shelf wear on front and back flap of dust jacket. Crisp pages and clean text.
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