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      ISBN: 0241127254

      ISBN13: 9780241127254

      Punishments

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      Centred round Michael, one of a group of British students on an exchange trip to Germany in 1968, this novel describes his attitudes and looks into the feelings of guilt, remorse and recrimination that must have occured at this time in history. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      In "Punishments" at one point the narrator tells of "...an incident which, to this day, still both puzzles me with its sense of things unacknowledged and even unknown, and infuriates me with its sense of opportunity lost." I would suggest reading this short novel with that quote in mind. Much of the beauty in this book is the main character's struggle to understand his situation - and his lack of power over how he was manipulated...

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      In 1981 Michael Gregg, the narrator recalls two weeks in 1948 when as an undergraduate he was one of a group of English students visiting Hildingen, Germany, to take part in an Anglo-German summer school, with the aim of paving the way for improved relations between the two recently warring nations. The German students taking part accommodate the English students in their homes or lodgings. Michael, along with fellow student...

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