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Kaethe Shalk faces a new life of boundless complexity when the Berlin Wall comes down and the ruin of the East stands in stark contrast to the exuberance of the West.
Having lived in America for many years, Kaethe Shalk returns to Berlin to try to come to terms with the Berlin of her youth. Her journey from America to the broken ground of contemporary Germany becomes an act of recovery: of the lives intertwined by politics and passion, of memory and the invented self, and of Kaethe’s search for a daughter lost to her, now grown and living in isolation from her mother’s past and present, somewhere in vast, resurgent Berlin.
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Kai Maristed has studied and worked in Cambridge, Tokyo, Berlin, and Munich. She is the author of a short-story collection and three novels. She lives near Boston.
Maristed explores one of the many issues that often results when an international marriage is dissolved by divorce: the great distance between the children and one of their parents. As Kaethe seeks to re-establish contact with her now adult daughter, she comes up against a spate of unresolved issues from her own youth, as well as the difficulty of trying to reconcile with a child who does not know her. Johanna Ward narrates with sensitivity to Kaethe's nervous energy and anxieties. Ward's pace reflects the impatience of a mother who feels she has already missed too much and must act with dispatch to recover what she can of the past, but who finds it all fundamentally overwhelming. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1470891921
- ISBN 13 9781470891923
- BindingAudio CD
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