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April
Angelika Klüssendorf (born 1958)
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Childhood is behind her, but nothing is resolved. The girl, who now calls herself April after a Deep Purple song, has left the children's home, dropped out of her training and been assigned work as an office help. In Leipzig at the end of the seventies, between old friends and new acquaintances, she keeps running into her own limits and gleefully crosses every one that others set for her. Her path leads through a state factory and a psychiatric ward, swinging between fragile happiness and complete failure, away from a bleak past towards an uncertain future.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 218 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, late 1970s
- First published
- 2014 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 56 when first published
- ISBN
9783462046144 (original)
- More
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