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At first they put Konrad's absentmindedness down to an immoderate fondness for alcohol. For years he had been a benign parasite on the Koch family first as the childhood playmate of Thomas heir to the Koch family fortune later as caretaker of the Koch family holiday villa on Corfu. And they in their turn had used him as the mood took them. But when the villa burns down because of Konrad's forgetfulness Elvira Senn the matriarch of the Koch family puts him on a strict regime. No longer allowed his daily tipple Konrad recovers and even falls in love again. But then his condition deteriorates. He can't find his way out of the supermarket let alone his way home. Soon Konrad doesn't even recognise his new lover. Alzheimer's has taken hold.

As Konrad loses his present he regains his distant past and this is what Elvira fears the most. As they watch and wait for him to rewind to the crucial moment his life is in danger from far more than the debilitating disease...

A gripping psychological thriller Small World depicts a man with a void in his soul whose only salvation lies buried deep within himself.
At first they put Konrad's absentmindedness down to an immoderate fondness for alcohol. For years he had been a benign parasite on the Koch family first as the childhood playmate of Thomas heir to the Koch family fortune later as caretaker of the Koch family holiday villa on Corfu. And they in their turn had used him as the mood took them. But when the villa burns down because of Konrad's forgetfulness Elvira Senn the matriarch of the Koch family puts him on a strict regime. No longer allowed his daily tipple Konrad recovers and even falls in love again. But then his condition deteriorates. He can't find his way out of the supermarket let alone his way home. Soon Konrad doesn't even recognise his new lover. Alzheimer's has taken hold.

As Konrad loses his present he regains his distant past and this is what Elvira fears the most. As they watch and wait for him to rewind to the crucial moment his life is in danger from far more than the debilitating disease...

A gripping psychological thriller Small World depicts a man with a void in his soul whose only salvation lies buried deep within himself.
Über den Autor
Martin Suter is a novelist, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist born in Zurich, Switzerland. He has written a dozen novels, many of them bestsellers in Europe and translated into thirty-two languages, including The Last Weynfeldt, as well as Allmen and the Dragonflies and its sequel Allmen and the Pink Diamond. Suter lives with his family in Zurich.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 248 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099449126
ISBN-10: 0099449129
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Suter, Martin
Übersetzung: Sandra Harper
Hersteller: Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Martin Suter
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.03.2003
Gewicht: 0,311 kg
Artikel-ID: 102580004