Summary
Ludwig Bauer: The Tower of Sour Apples
The Tower of Sour Apples differs from all previous Bauer books in that the narrator's self is autobiographical. Until now, Bauer regularly played, not only with the ich form, but also by mixing real facts from his life with imagined ones. In The Tower of Sour Apples we meet a powerful and strong storyteller who, through his own fate and the fate of his family, paints a striking picture of life in the second half of the twentieth century.
The main character of the novel grows up and matures in turbulent times, in an era of constant change, in which he too changes from a curious and playful boy to a cocky young man, an intelligent student and a man in search of happiness abroad to of a serious husband, passing through various cities: Vukovar, Sisak, Makarska, Zagreb, Paris, Bratislava, Prague...
The Tower of Sour Apples is a small masterpiece by Ludwig Bauer, through which his award-winning previous novels A Short Chronicle of the Weber Family, Zavičaj, Zavora, Pearls for Karolina and Carousel are much better understood.
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