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The Tower
Der Turm
Uwe Tellkamp (born 1968)
Translated by Mike Mitchell
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The Tower
Penguin Books · United Kingdom · 2014 · 1007 pages
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From a villa district in Dresden, Anne and Richard watch a social system in decline. They belong to a class that socialism never planned for: the educated middle class. But the system demands conformity, and the alternatives would be emigration or resistance. Among doctors, writers, pupils and party officials, three generations of one family drift towards the revolution of 1989, while their rebellious son Christian is sent on a journey through hell, from their enclave into military service. A panorama of the late GDR, its smells, ways of speaking and mentalities, moving inexorably towards 9 November.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 972 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1980s
- First published
- 2008 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9783518420201 (original)
9780241004579 (Penguin Books, United Kingdom)
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