In English
Deutscher Buchpreis 2011 · Winner
In Times of Fading Light
In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts
Eugen Ruge · 57 when first published
Novel · 425 pages · Family, Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Three generations of a family from the 1950s to the new millennium: grandparents who return from Mexican exile to build the young GDR, their son back from a Siberian camp, and a grandson who leaves for the West on the patriarch's ninetieth birthday.