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The official website for thaisa frank, author of heidegger s glasses, a brief history of camouflage, sleeping in velvet and finding your writers voice. Thaisa frank s short stories have received two pen awards, and her two previous collections have been on the bestseller list of the san francisco chronicle. Heidegger s glasses by thaisa frank from waterstones today. With this debut novel that is part thriller and part meditation on how the dead are rememberedand with threads of heideggers philosophy woven throughoutthaisa frank deftly reconstructs the landscape of nazi germany in a spellbinding, innovative, intellectually compelling tourdeforce michelle huneven. Heidegger is looking for his eyeglasses as well as his friend. An occult nazi program is threatened by a philosophers letter to a friend in this stunning work, full of mystery and strange tenderness dan chaon. Heideggers glasses opens during the end of world war ii in a failing germany coming apart at its seams. Jul 10, 2012 praise for heideggers glasses frank s vision of the holocaust is original and startling, with compelling characters and a narrative thats both explosive and ponderous.
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