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“Six Suitcases” (title translated by AI)
Maxim Biller (born 1960)
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A family secret from the Cold War. In 1960, the narrator's grandfather was executed in the Soviet Union, and someone in his own family is suspected of betraying him and his smuggling. Told from six perspectives, the story of a Jewish-Russian family unfolds through Soviet secret-police files, poisoned love affairs and the schemes of antisemitic cultural officials: about betrayal and hurt, desire and jealousy, family loyalty and love between siblings. Above all, it is about people who again and again pack their whole lives into a suitcase and move on, secrets included, and about the impossibility of a single truth.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 197 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2018 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 58 when first published
- ISBN
9783462050868 (original)
- More
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