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In Times of Fading Light
In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts
Eugen Ruge (born 1954)
Translated by Anthea Bell
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In Times of Fading Light
Faber & Faber · United Kingdom · 2013
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In Times of Fading Light
Graywolf Press · United States · 2013 · 308 pages
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A German family from the fifties to the turn of the millennium. The grandparents, convinced communists, return from exile in Mexico to help build the young GDR. Their son, who emigrated to Moscow as a young man and was deported to a Siberian camp, travels back from the Urals to a petty-bourgeois republic that he still believes can be changed. For the grandson, the country his parents and grandparents chose grows too narrow. Three generations, each seen up close, carry the history of East Germany from its beginning to the fall of the Wall, told with quiet humour.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 425 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1950s–2001
- First published
- 2011 by Rowohlt Verlag
- Author's age
- 57 when first published
- ISBN
9783498057862 (original)
9780571288571 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)
9781555976439 (Graywolf Press, United States)
- More
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