When you’d started a world war
Blake Morrison: Walter Kempowski, 20 June 2019
Homeland
by Walter Kempowski, translated by Charlotte Collins.
Granta, 240 pp., £14.99, November 2018,978 1 78378 352 6 Show More
by Walter Kempowski, translated by Charlotte Collins.
Granta, 240 pp., £14.99, November 2018,
“... Why has so little of Walter Kempowski’s work appeared in English? In Germany he published forty-odd books but only two of his novels were translated into English during his lifetime: Aus grosser Zeit (Days of Greatness) in 1978 and Hundstage (Dog Days – not to be confused with Günter Grass’s Hundejahre, Dog Years) ten years later ... ”