Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family Thomas Mann

The Buddenbrook clan is everything youd 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, Manns first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.