Aus der Geschichte der Trennungen
From the Story of Separations
Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1999, 337 pages
In this novel, the author succeeds in treating highly political material – the decade of German reunification – in a highly poetic fashion. The story of the search for a lost childhood in a long lost country is told without prejudice: it avails itself of no ideological clichés, and questions all of them. It denounces no dreams, but tests each. The precision of memory in this writing is irresistible; its sensuousness and melancholy bewitching. As a novel about Germany, it undoubtedly stands apart.
Jürgen Becker – Biography
Ulrich Schacht: „Literatur-Tipp"
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