The Year before the Storm

A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence. Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes

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Kuvan pehmytkantinen kirja. Isompi kuin pokkarikoko.

KUNTO oikein hyvä / erinomainen. Ei merkintöjä.

TOIMITUS kirjepostin mukana (suojataan paperilla mahdollisuuksien mukaan). Kirjeissä ei ole seurantaa.

Kuuskulma toimii ainoastaan verkossa. Tuotteissa ei siis ole noutomahdollisuutta. (Lukisithan muutenkin ohjeistuksen - sekä esimerkiksi postitusaikatauluihini liittyvät tiedot ohesta.)

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