A mother and her two children – one boy, one girl – are waiting for the father to come home. She has prepared an enormous bowl of mussels for her husband; she doesn't care much for them herself, she ...
Birgit Vanderbeke is an award-winning German author who now lives in France. The Mussel Feast, the English translation of her debut novel by Jamie Bulloch, was published by Peirene Press last year and ...
Father wants to eat mussels — and the rest of the family obeys. As per usual. Set in postwar Germany, "The Mussel Feast" by Birgit Vanderbeke shows the true colors of a small family.
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