- Fiction, general, Germany, fiction, Physicians, Fiction
"One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful characters they encounter -- from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage -- coping with physical misery, madness, and the brutality of the austere landscape.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Thomas Bernhard
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press, Vintage, Suhrkamp
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783518415023
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