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Ruppertshain: Roman

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"Sie hatte die Vertreibung aus Böhmen hinter sich, sie war die Mutter eines chaotischen Sohnes, und sie hatte dreißig Jahre lang den täglichen Drahtseilakt einer Ehe mit Heinrich und einer Liaison mit Albrecht bewältigt."
Nun wartet Antonia, die mit fünfzig noch immer attraktiv und schön ist, mit einer Handvoll Menschen auf das Ableben ihres todkranken Mannes. Die Monate vergehen, doch in der weißen Villa in Ruppertshain im Taunus herrscht eine merkwürdige Art von Stillstand. Um so mehr sind seine Bewohner erschüttert, als das erwartete Ereignis tatsächlich eintritt – und ihnen eröffnet wird, daß Haus und Park zutiefst verschuldet sind. Und schon werden aus alten Freunden Feinde, lauern die Finanzhaie darauf, den Besitz des ehemaligen Frankfurter Bankiers zu parzellieren und gewinnbringend zu vermarkten. Antonia aber weiß sich zu wehren.

477 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 2004

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About the author

Martin Mosebach

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Martin Mosebach has published novels, stories, and collections of poems, written scripts for several films, opera libretti, theatre and radio plays.

The German Academy for Language and Literature praised him for "combining stylistic splendour with original storytelling that demonstrates a humorous awareness of history."

Among his works translated into English is The Heresy of Formlessness, a collection of essays on the liturgy and its recent reform told from the perspective of a literary writer. It has been published in the United States by Ignatius Press.

The book argues for a return to the Tridentine Rite of the Mass, the form of the Roman Rite before the Second Vatican Council, the use of which, in accordance with the Roman Missal of 1962, is authorized, under certain conditions, by the 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.

Other works include The Turkish Woman, "The Tremor," "The Long Night" and "Prince of Mist," in which the author examines the motives behind man's eternal search for a meaning.

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