August by Christa Wolf

August by Christa Wolf

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.

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)

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.

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ISBN 13	9780857421869
ISBN 10	0857421867
Title	August
Author	Christa Wolf
Series	German List Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Seagull Books London Ltd
Year published	2014-03-07
Number of pages	80
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