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August
Christa Wolf
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Description for August
Hardback. The author was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. In this title, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946, a real-life event that was the inspiration for the closing scenes of her 1976 novel Patterns of Childhood. Translator(s): Derbyshire, Katy. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232.
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Growing up during the Nazi regime, she was forced to flee her home with her family, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contained veiled criticisms of the Communist regime that landed her on government watch lists. Her past continued to permeate her work and her life; as she said, "You can only fight sorrow when you look it in the eye." August is Christa Wolf's last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary ... Read more
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Growing up during the Nazi regime, she was forced to flee her home with her family, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contained veiled criticisms of the Communist regime that landed her on government watch lists. Her past continued to permeate her work and her life; as she said, "You can only fight sorrow when you look it in the eye." August is Christa Wolf's last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857421869
SKU
V9780857421869
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About Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf's (1929-2011) other works include Cassandra, Patterns of Childhood, and The Quest for Christa T. Katy Derbyshire is a London-born translator who has lived in Berlin for many years. Her translations of Inka Parei's Shadow-Boxing Woman and What Darkness Was, and Dorothee Elmiger's Invitation to the Bold of Heart are also published by Seagull Books.
Reviews for August
"At a time when East and West, bristling with weapons, faced off in rigid ideological confrontation, Wolf wrote books that crossed and overcame this divide, books that have lasted: the great, allegorical novels, the personal account of illness and pain." (Gunter Grass)"