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Lichtungen
Iris Wolff (born 1977)
Translated by Ruth Martin
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Moth Books · United Kingdom · June 2026
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When eleven-year-old Lev is confined to bed for weeks, it is Kato, clever but shunned by everyone, who is sent to bring him his homework. A bond forms between the unlikely pair that frees Lev from his stiffness and gives both something to hold on to as they grow up in communist Romania, in Transylvania. Half a life later, Lev still walks the paths of their childhood, while Kato left for the West years ago. All he has are her hand-drawn postcards from all over Europe, until one day a card arrives from Zurich with a single sentence: 'When are you coming?' The story is told backwards.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 255 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania, Switzerland
- First published
- 2024 by Klett-Cotta
- Author's age
- 47 when first published
- ISBN
9783608987706 (original)
9781917593045 (Moth Books, United Kingdom)
- More
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