Finis Silesiae

The author came across prewar German photographs taken in Silesia, identified the photographer, Karl Franz Klose, and set out to imagine the lives of the young people in them. The novel follows two of them, Brigitte Kopietz and Paul Scholz, who meet somewhere between Germany and Poland, in a country that still exists but will soon vanish. Their story may not be that of the people in the pictures, but it could have been that of many of their German peers.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

359 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland, Germany

First published

2003 by Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9788370239992 (original)