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Bad Sheep

Böse Schafe

Katja Lange-Müller (born 1951)

Translated by Simon Pare

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In English

• Bad Sheep

  Seagull Books · United Kingdom · 2025 · Hardcover · 200 pages

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Since her escape from the GDR, Soja has lived in West Berlin, selling flowers. One day she runs into Harry from Neukölln, and he immediately becomes the axis her life turns on. Harry has spent ten years in prison and is out on probation; he is a junkie and HIV-positive, he has broken off his drug therapy, and another prison term looms. Soja finds him a place in therapy, enlists her friends to look after him and ignores every sign that Harry is keeping things from her. The sad and comic story of a mad love between an East German woman and a West German man, and of Berlin.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

204 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, 1980s

First published

2007 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9783462039146 (original)

9781803094014 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

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