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Rabenliebe
“Raven Love” (title translated by AI)
Peter Wawerzinek (born 1954)
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How could his mother do this to him: leave him behind in the GDR as a small child when she fled to the West? The lonely boy, passed from one children's home to the next, does not speak until well into his fourth year; he avoids people and prefers to listen to the birds and imitate their song. Much later, as a border soldier, he tries to escape towards his mother in the West but turns back halfway: does he really want to see her again, after she cast him out and never got in touch? A song of mourning in many voices about lifelong abandonment, and a social history of the GDR in the sixties.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 427 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany
- First published
- 2010 by Galiani Berlin
- Author's age
- 56 when first published
- ISBN
9783869710204 (original)
- More
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