Pavel's Letters - Softcover
Pavel was Monika Maron's grandfather. But she only remembers him in black and white, as he left his children behind in Berlin when he was deported to his native Poland, and afterwards perished in a concentration camp. As a grown-up with a son of her own, researching a documentary for German television, Monika discovers letters which her grandfather wrote to Monika's mother, Hella. Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep and about what becomes of the individual mind when the powers that be turn against it.
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Teasing her family?s past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany?s greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep and about what becomes of the individual mind when the powers that be turn against it.
About the Author:
Monika Maron was born in Berlin in 1941, grew up in East Germany, left for the West in 1988 and now lives in Berlin once again. She is the author of the novels Silent Close No.6, Flight of Ashes, Animal Triste and The Defectors. In 1992 she was distinguished with the renowned Kleist Prize, awarded annually to prominent German authors, and, in 2003, with the Friedrich Hoelderlin Prize.
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0099449765
- ISBN 13 9780099449768
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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