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A sweeping story of the Umnitzer family over four generations in East Germany, the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime, following four generations of an East German family from 1952 to 2001.
The Umnitzer family is afflicted by long-term dysfunction. Wilhelm, the patriarch, is an unrepentant “socialist warrior”. The novel centres on Wilhelm’s 90th birthday party, which takes place in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Kurt, Wilhelm's historian son, has suffered terribly in the Stalinist Gulag, but retains a lingering faith in the socialist experiment...
A sweeping story of the Umnitzer family over four generations in East Germany, the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime, following four generations of an East German family from 1952 to 2001.
The Umnitzer family is afflicted by long-term dysfunction. Wilhelm, the patriarch, is an unrepentant “socialist warrior”. The novel centres on Wilhelm’s 90th birthday party, which takes place in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Kurt, Wilhelm's historian son, has suffered terribly in the Stalinist Gulag, but retains a lingering faith in the socialist experiment...
Eugen Ruge
Eugen Ruge was born in the Urals and studied mathematics in Berlin. Before he left the GDR for the West in 1988, he was a writer, contributing to documentaries made at the state-owned DEFA Studios....
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