Watching the Colour Drain from the Butcher Boy’s Face
Gabriele Annan, 18 May 2000
Lost
by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, translated by Carol Brown Janeway.
Picador, 145 pp., £10, January 2000,0 330 39093 7 Show More
by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, translated by Carol Brown Janeway.
Picador, 145 pp., £10, January 2000,
“... the Tuscan farm across the valley from yours. The asylum-seeker scenario is one of the subtexts in Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s economical, cynical, pitiless and very funny novella. In this case the asylum seekers are a young East Prussian farmer and his wife and baby son. It is 1945, and they are fleeing before the Russian advance. ‘The Russians were ... ”
