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03266aam a2200469Ii 4500 001 8C251400774811E7923FA1BEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170802010138 007 tu 008 161007s2017 enk 000 f eng d 020 $a 1782271287 020 $a 9781782271284 035 $a (OCoLC)959952041 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d GWDNB $d OCLCO $d NZAUC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NGU $d OCL $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 050 4 $a PT2668 E7572 S2513 2017 100 1 $a Herrndorf, Wolfgang, $d 1965-2013, $e author. 245 10 $a Sand / $c Wolfgang Herrndorf ; translated by Tim Mohr. 264 1 $a London : $b Pushkin Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 442 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Originally published in German by Rowohlt Berlin, 2011. 520 $a "North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a series of mysterious events is playing out in the Sahara desert. Four people are murdered in a hippy commune, a suitcase full of money disappears, and a pair of unenthusiastic detectives are assigned to investigate. In the midst of it all, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. This is a darkly sophisticated literary thriller from a master storyteller and star of the German literary scene." $c Pushkin Press website. 520 $a "At the same time as the Palestinian terrorist attacks during the 1972 Munich Olympics, a local man from a North African desert town is accused of breaking into an oasis commune composed largely of hedonistic Western European ex-patriots, and murdering four people. The crime has witnesses but is investigated by two bungling policemen who are tired of their monotonous roles and make only a limited effort. In the meantime, we meet a man who is ostensibly suffering from amnesia. He becomes Herrndorf's hero in Sand, as he lurches from one mishap to the next, incurring injury (both emotional and physical) at every turn in a spate of torture and threats that he cannot comprehend. Though the overarching cause of his pain, and the innumerable groups on his tracks, remain ambiguous, the reader finds truth in his hapless scrapes and existential contemplation"--New Books in German website, Oct. 29, 2012. 650 0 $a Hippies $z Africa, North $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Communal living $z Africa, North $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Africa, North $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Sahara $v Fiction. 650 0 $a German fiction. 653 $a (lcsh)Hippies--Africa, North--Fiction. 653 $a (lcsh)Communal living--Africa, North--Fiction. 653 $a (lcsh)German fiction. 653 $a (lcsh)Africa, North--Fiction. 653 $a (lcsh)Sahara--Fiction. 653 $a (Produktform)Paperback / softback 653 $a (VLB-WN)2112: Taschenbuch / Belletristik/Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945) 700 1 $a Mohr, Tim, $e translator. 856 42 $u http://d-nb.info/1129804496/04 $3 Inhaltsverzeichnis 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021020132.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107013621.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8C251400774811E7923FA1BEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search