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August by Christa Wolf ; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contai ...Show more
Eulogy for the Living - Taking Flight by Christa Wolf; Katy Derbyshire (Translator); Gerhard Wolf (Afterword by)
Category: Culture | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
A fragmentary work that stands as a testament to Wolf's skill as a thinker, storyteller, and memorializer of humanity's greatest struggles. Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book Patterns of Childhood, she explained why it was so diffic ...Show more
One Day a Year - 2001-2011 by Christa Wolf; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: The\German List Ser.
During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th? Fascinated by considering the significance of a single day over many years, Wolf began keeping a detailed diary of September 27th, a practice which she carr ...Show more
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