Pavel's Letters
Pavel's Letters
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Born in a working-class suburb of wartime Berlin, the author grew up a daughter of the East German nomenklatura, despairing of the system her mother, Hella, helped create. Maron reconstructs their lives from fragments of memory and a forgotten box of letters. This title tells her family's powerful and heroic story.
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Pavel's Letters by Monika Maron
Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep, about the fortitude of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, and about what becomes of the individual mind when the powers that be turn against it. Born in a working-class suburb of wartime Berlin, Monika Maron grew up a daughter of the East German nomenklatura, despairing of the system her mother, Hella, helped create. Haunted by the ghosts of her Baptist grandparents, she questions her mother, whose selective memory throws up obstacles to Maron's understanding of her grandparents' horrifying denouement in Polish exile. Maron reconstructs their lives from fragments of memory and a forgotten box of letters. In telling her family's powerful and heroic story, she has written a memoir that has the force of a great novel and also stands both as an elaborate metaphor for the shame of the twentieth century and a life-affirming monument to her ancestors.
A raw..subtle and moving book * Independent *
Pavel's Letters has a particularly haunting quality * Times Literary Supplement *
This writer has more reason than most to publish a memoir * Independent on Sunday *
This is the deeply piercing story, both personal and political, of a generation. It is hard to imagine it can be surpassed -- Tilman Krause * Die Welt *
Monika Maron makes other people's memories her own. She does so without moral outrage, telling the story straightforwardly, unsentimentally, not trying to show off her skill. The greatness of this book lies in this discretion: and Pavel's Letters is a great book -- Rolf Schneider
Pavel's Letters has a particularly haunting quality * Times Literary Supplement *
This writer has more reason than most to publish a memoir * Independent on Sunday *
This is the deeply piercing story, both personal and political, of a generation. It is hard to imagine it can be surpassed -- Tilman Krause * Die Welt *
Monika Maron makes other people's memories her own. She does so without moral outrage, telling the story straightforwardly, unsentimentally, not trying to show off her skill. The greatness of this book lies in this discretion: and Pavel's Letters is a great book -- Rolf Schneider
Monika Maron was born in Berlin in 1941, grew up in East Germany, left for the West in 1988 and now lives in Berlin once again. She is the author of the novels Silent Close No.6, Flight of Ashes, Animal Triste and The Defectors. In 1992 she was distinguished with the renowned Kleist Prize, awarded annually to prominent German authors, and, in 2003, with the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781860466298 |
| ISBN 10 | 186046629X |
| Title | Pavel's Letters |
| Author | Monika Maron |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-07-18 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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