Faszination Bliesgau

Das Biosphärenreservat Bliesgau liegt in der südöstlichsten Ecke des Saarlandes, an der Grenze zu Frankreich und Rheinland-Pfalz. Die sanfte, hügelige Landschaft ist geprägt durch ausgedehnte Streuobstwiesen, wertvolle Buchenwälder, artenreiche Trockenrasen und eine eindrucksvolle Auenlandschaft, die von dem namengebenden Fluss, der Blies, durchzogen wird. Für viele Menschen ist dieser besondere Himmel und das besondere Land darunter Heimat. Lassen Sie sich mitnehmen auf eine Reise durch die Jahreszeiten des Bliesgaus. Entdecken Sie Bekannte und Bekanntes, Überraschendes und Liebenswertes. Vielleicht erleben auch Sie bei einem persönlichen Besuch im Biosphärenreservat Bliesgau wie nah man manchmal dem Paradies ist.

This brimming saga begins in 1916 with a bang and never lets up...The cascade of historic details Gold generates is breathtaking, but it is his electrifying characters, wildly inventive action replete with comedic mishaps and witty dialogue, and trenchant insights into the absurdity of war and the mythic dimension of movies that gather force and velocity to make this such a hilarious, brilliant, and transporting novel.

Vorwort
By the author of the bestselling CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL, a novel in which Charlie Chaplin collides with the First World War in a panoramic and exhilarating tale.

Autorentext
Glen David Gold was born in Los Angeles and from the age of ten grew up in San Francisco. His first novel, CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL was published in 2001, when it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and has been translated into 14 languages. His second novel, SUNNYSIDE, was published in 2009. His short stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Playboy and McSweeney's. He lives in San Francisco.

Zusammenfassung

From the author of the acclaimed CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL comes a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its centre: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, thrilling and darkly comic, which dramatizes the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.

SUNNYSIDE follows three overlapping fortunes: Leland Wheeler, son of the last (and worst) Wild West star, as he heads to the battlefields of France; snobbish Hugo Black, drafted to fight in Russia under the British general, Edmund Ironside; and Chaplin himself, contending with studio moguls, accusations of cowardice, his unchecked heart and, most menacing of all, his mother, as he pursues the goal of making a movie 'as good as he was'.

With a cast of enthralling characters both historical and fictional, SUNNYSIDE is a heart-rending, spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition and the dawn of the modern age.