{"product_id":"warm-soos-die-steppewind-deel-i-konsalik-1972","title":"Warm soos die Steppewind by Heinz G. Konsalik","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarm soos die Steppewind (Tafelberg 1972 Afrikaans Edition in Dust Jacket)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Afrikaans edition of Konsalik's Siberian doctor drama, Deel I, in its original illustrated dust jacket\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographic Specifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Warm soos die Steppewind: Deel I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Heinz G. Konsalik\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tafelberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1972\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0624002594\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e Eerste druk, Tafelberg, 1972. Deel I of a two-volume Afrikaans translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Publisher's black cloth boards with a printed dust jacket in plum and orange.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/strong\u003e Medium-sized octavo hardcover. Deel I of two volumes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e Afrikaans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOfficial Condition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good (G)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \/ Boards:\u003c\/strong\u003e The black cloth boards are square and show no obvious damage. The spine is covered by the dust jacket and has not been examined bare.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e The text pages are cream and evenly tanned, as expected for the age. The pages examined are clean, with no marks or foxing. The binding is tight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present, with a glossy laminated finish, and protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover. There is a vertical crease and tear at the top of the back panel, with rubbing, small chips and creasing along the back edges and corners, and small dents or marks near the left edge of the front panel. The spine panel remains bright. Graded about Good to Very Good.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarm soos die Steppewind, Deel I, is the Afrikaans translation published by Tafelberg in 1972 of Heinz G. Konsalik's German novel Heiss wie der Steppenwind. The story is set against Stalin-era Russia and the Siberian camps, and follows a boy sent to a war-orphan home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pages of this volume follow a doctor named Igor and his mentor Pjetkin, including a scene in a prison camp hospital. Dutch listings of the same novel describe a romance between two doctors, Igor and Dunja, in southern Siberia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKonsalik was among the most widely read German popular novelists of the postwar decades, and Tafelberg issued a number of his titles in Afrikaans. This volume is a clean, complete reading copy of a popular Afrikaans translation from the early 1970s, retaining its original illustrated jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: Heinz G. Konsalik\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeinz G. Konsalik was born in Cologne on 28 May 1921 and died in Wals, near Salzburg, Austria, on 2 October 1999. He studied medicine, then theatre and literary studies, and worked as a war correspondent during the Second World War. After the war he worked as a dramaturg and editor, and from 1951 he was a freelance writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis best-known novel is Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1956). 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