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Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature
Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.
The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.
In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.
Author: Thomas Mann
Paperback Published 1 October 1996 864 pages
'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' -New York Times