The Training Ground
by Siegfried Lenz
425 pages· ISBN 9780805009439
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Through the limited viewpoint of the confused and vulnerable Bruno, this novel provides a complex commentary both on the decline of a family and on the wider history of post-war Germany. The author has won a number of literary awards, including the Thomas Mann Prize.
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