The Sound of the Sundial / / Hana Andronikova; ed. by Rachel Miranda Feingold.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Andronikova, Hana,
• MitwirkendeR: Bajaja, Antonín,; Short, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Miranda Feingold, Rachel,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

The Sound of the Sundial is the internationally acclaimed novel by Czech sensation Hana Andronikova, told over the course of a single day and night, but spanning three continents and much of the twentieth century. In this intimate and affecting love story about a Jewish teacher and a German-Czech builder, Andronikova sends her readers on a captivating journey through time and memory, from the Czech town of Zlín in the 1920s to Calcutta in the 1930s, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz during World War II, Toronto in the decades afterward, and finally into modern-day Colorado. It is at once a deeply personal narrative and an homage to the lost relationship of the Czech, German, and Jewish peoples. In 2002, The Sound of the Sundial received the Czech Republic’s prestigious Magnesia Litera Award in the category of Best New Discovery, just a few years before its young author died. It is making its world premiere appearance in English here.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Note -- I New Year’s Eve -- II Another World -- III Quest for the Sun -- Late Afternoon -- IV Anna: How I Met My Sister -- V Samsara -- Dusk -- VI The Witch Savitri -- VII Anna: Hidden Notes -- Late Evening -- VIII The World Walks on its Hands -- IX Anna: Find Your Own God -- Midnight -- X Incurable -- XI Anna: Beneath a White Star -- Before Dawn -- XII Ways to Die -- XIII Anna: Hugo’s Eyes -- Dawn -- XIV Anna: We Are Stories -- XV How Many More Times Must I Lose You? -- XVI New Day—New Year -- Obituary of Hana Andronikova