Format:
Book
Title:
Jenseits von Eden : Roman / John Steinbeck.
Author:
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Call Number:
FIC STEINBEC J GERMAN
Publisher, Date:
[Gütersloh, Germany] : Im Bertelsmann Lesering, 1961.
Description:
701 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary:
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Subjects:
Children of prostitutes -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Sibling rivalry -- Fiction.
Brothers -- Fiction.
Salinas River Valley (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Other Title:
East of Eden. German