In today's episode, Kaustubh and Anirudh invite Martin Stelbrink to converse on a book that he always goes back to….Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson.
About Uwe Johnson`s Anniversaries: As a novel, Uwe Johnson’s masterpiece, Anniversaries, is at once daringly simple in conception and wonderfully complex and engaging in effect. The main character of this book is Gesine Cresspahl, a German emigre living on the Upper West Side of New York City and working as a translator for a bank who is the single mother of a ten-year-old daughter, Marie. The book would tell the story of a year in the life of this little family in relation to the unfolding story of the year, as winnowed from the pages of the New York Times, of which Gesine is a devoted if wary reader. Monumental and intimate, sweeping in vision and full of incident, richly detailed and endlessly absorbing, Anniversaries, now for the first time available in English in a brilliant new translation by Damion Searls, is nothing short of a revelation. (Courtesy: Goodreads)
Our guest speaker, Martin Stelbrink, is based in Germany and is the Managing Director in Accenture's Technology Practice focused on complex delivery challenges in Application Services ranging from System Integration, Packaged Solutions Rollout and Operations. He is a down-to-earth Westphalian, who settled in the lower Rhine area close to Düsseldorf. Besides technology he is a voracious reader, an ambitious amateur photographer and a passionate supporter of Borussia Mönchengladbach.
In this episode, Martin shares how he fell in love with reading and how he found ’friends’ in Gesine Cresspahl and other characters from Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries.
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Link to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38118675-anniversaries?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=KQqsvTrjs9&rank=1
Link to Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Uwe-Johnson/dp/1681372037/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=uwe+johnson+anniversaries&qid=1682265027&sprefix=anniversaries+%2Caps%2C217&sr=8-1&language=en_US