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The Tanners

(1907)
A novel by

 
 
Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family - Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric.


Genre: General Fiction

Praise for this book

"Unforgettable, heart-rending." - J M Coetzee

"A clairvoyant of the small." - W G Sebald

"A major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer." - Susan Sontag


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