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 · THE ISLAND OF SECOND SIGHT. by Albert Vigoleis Thelen translated by Donald O. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 2, A vast novel—if novel it is—of the tangled lives of anti-Nazi Germans on the Spanish island of Majorca in the years leading up to World War II. Thelen was the son of booksellers Louis Thelen and Johanna Scheifes. After the primary school (–) he attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Schule (–). Thelen's main work, The Island of Second Sight, which has been praised by many as one of the great achievements in German literature of the 20th century, appeared in /5.  · “The Island of Second Sight is worth more than the entire output of the Gruppe Thelen manages to portray the fullness of life in its mix of confusion, burlesque, absurdity, despair, adversity, meanness and it’s overwhelming beauty which time and time again vanquishes everything.” Wiglaf Droste, taz

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First published in , The Island of Second Sight by the German author Albert Vigoleis Thelen () comes with impressive testimonials. For example, Thomas Mann considered it to be one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. And yet The Island of Second Sight has not been available in English until now. THE ISLAND OF SECOND SIGHT. by Albert Vigoleis Thelen translated by Donald O. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 2, A vast novel—if novel it is—of the tangled lives of anti-Nazi Germans on the Spanish island of Majorca in the years leading up to World War II. Thelen was the son of booksellers Louis Thelen and Johanna Scheifes. After the primary school (–) he attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Schule (–). Thelen's main work, The Island of Second Sight, which has been praised by many as one of the great achievements in German literature of the 20th century, appeared in