Gleiwitz: Eine oberschlesische Chronik in vier Romanen

by Horst Bienek

German

1452 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

Horst Bieneck is best known for his “Gleiwitz cycle” of four novels about his native Silesia (Poland) “The First Polka” (1975), “September Light” (1977), “Time Without Bells” (1979) and “Earth and Fire” (1982). As a young man he was imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp until 1955, and his first novel “The Cell” (1968) describes his experiences there as a political prisoner. Later he worked in the media in West Germany while writing novels. He was the winner of the Nellie Sachs Prize, the Bremen Literature Prize and the William Raabe Prize.