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Synopsis
William T. Vollmann turns his attention to Central Europe, setting this 800-page novel in 1941, when the German army was moving into Russia, where it would soon meet major defeats. Vollmann incorporates not only actual events but real people (they include Käthe Kollwitz, Shostakovich, and the German general Paulus), along with figures from German mythology, into a narrative that aims to find equivalences between Nazism and Stalinism and to show exactly what "just following orders" meant to the actual people who were involved. Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction.
| Size | | Length: | 811 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 2.2 in | | Weight: | 37.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Every two years, [Vollmann] flashes across the sky with another incredibly learned, incredibly written, incredibly long novel....Few American writers infuse their writing with similar urgency."
Publishers Weekly (02/07/2005)
"William T. Vollmann's 12th book of fiction--EUROPE CENTRAL--almost a novel in stories--is his most welcoming work, possibly his best book....Vollmann is a master of atmosphere, expanding a trivial detail into a metaphor, then wiring that metaphor to others....Part novel and part stories, virtuoso historical remembrance and focused study of violence, EUROPE CENTRAL orchestrates the best of Vollmann's past impulses into one large-minded and big-hearted opus...."
New York Times Book Review - Tom Leclair (04/03/2005)
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