Uma Familia Respeitada

by Heinz G. Konsalik, Maria Emília Ferros Moura (Translator)

Nella Francoforte dei giorni nostri Eduard Barrenberg, cinquantenne architetto di grido, marito tranquillo e padre felice, intreccia una tenera storia d'amore con la giovane Bettina. Tutto sembra procedere sui binari della più normale avventura extraconiugale quando la giovane amante, rivelandosi all'improvviso invischiata nello squallido giro della droga, espone l'intera famiglia Barrenberg alla violenza di un mondo retto dalla forza del ricatto e della corruzione.

311 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1986

About the author

Heinz G. Konsalik (pseudonym of Heinz Günther) was a German novelist.

Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, for instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (The Mutilated Face), which deals with a German soldier's recovery after his sledge ran over a personnel mine and destroyed his face, and how this affected his relationship with his wife at home. It places no judgment on the German position in the war and simply deals with human beings in often desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German military law.

Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted into a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold of his 155 novels made him the most popular German novelist of the postwar era and many of his novels were translated and sold through book clubs. He is buried in Cologne.

Reviews

[Eduardo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Título em português "Uma família respeitada"
Mais um bom livro de Konsalik, desta vez a abordar os temas da droga, da traição e da vingança.

[Marinho Lopes]

Novela interessante, que retrata bem o problema emergente da heroína na década de 60 na Alemanha, bem como o confronto idealista da nova geração, com a geração anterior, mais pragmática e moldada pelas vivências da segunda guerra mundial.