Brigitte Reimann: Siblings, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Siblings
- Original title: Die Geschwister
- Translation:
- Lucy Jones
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 02/2024
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241555842
- Item number:
- 11502424
- Volume:
- 133 Pages
- Weight:
- 200 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 29.2.2024
- Series:
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and divisions that make and ultimately break both' Lisa Appignanesi
- The border between East and West Germany has closed.
For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of stricture and oppression. Separating them is the ever-wider chasm of the Party line; over them loom the twin spectres of opportunity and fear, and the shadow of their defector brother Konrad. In prose as bold as a scarlet paint stroke, Brigitte Reimann battles with the clash of idealism and suppression, familial loyalty, and desire. The result is this ground-breaking classic of post-war East German literature.
Translated by Lucy Jones
Biography (Brigitte Reimann)
Brigitte Reimann, geb. 1933 in Burg bei Magdeburg, war nach dem Abitur Lehrerin und seit ihrer ersten Buchveröffentlichung 1955 freie Autorin. 1960 zog sie nach Hoyerswerda, 1968 nach Neubrandenburg. Nach langer Krankheit starb sie 1973 in Berlin.More from Brigitte Reimann
