Blendung. EnglishPeter Kien, a distimnguished reclusive sinologist living in Germany between the wars is manipulated by his grasping and illiterate housekeeper, Therese, who has tricked him into marriage, and Benedikt Pfaff, a brutish concierge, Kien is forced out of his apartment - which houses his great library and one true passion - into the underworld of the city |
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PART ONE A HEAD WITHOUT A WORLD I THE MORNING WALK | 9 |
THE SECRET | 26 |
CONFUCIUS THE MATCHMAKER | 36 |
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