Ascent

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Fiction. Translated from the German by Donna Stonecipher. Two young men with very different personalities set out to climb a mountain. Ull decisive and competent has his eye on the goal: the summit. Johann irresolute is just along for the climb; after several setbacks he gives up and turns back. Ull continues ondespite the near impossibility of summiting along and ignoring all warning signsdetermined to reach the summit in defiance of his friend. "Hohl is a great discovery an unjustly neglected author."Susan Bernofsky