Late one night a young engineer named Kurt Weyrath is involved in a highway accident that leaves a middle-aged couple dead and their twenty-four-year-old daughter, Anna Kainz, in a coma. Tormented afterwards by his guilt, Kurt quits his job and joins an ambulance service so that he might come into contact with the comatose young woman.
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Late one night a young engineer named Kurt Weyrath is involved in a highway accident that leaves a middle-aged couple dead and their twenty-four-year-old daughter, Anna Kainz, in a coma. Tormented afterwards by his guilt, Kurt quits his job and joins an ambulance service so that he might come into contact with the comatose young woman.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. CA5-A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated black and white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the copyright page, and the back endpaper. Translated from the German and with a foreword by Peter Filkins. The main character is a young engineer involved in a highway accident that kills a middle-aged couple and puts their adult daughter in a coma. He flees the scene and his guilt drives him to quit his job and joun an ambulance service in order to gain contact to the comatose young woman. He becomes closely involved in her life by helping with her therapies and exploring her life searching for people who knew her. After more than a year, k she rrecovers from her coma but is a very different woman than the engineer has reconstructed in his mind. The author is a winner of the Anna Seghers Prize and the Carinthia Prize. By the author of "What She Knew." 146p.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
