Back to Back Julia Franck. Transl. from the German by Anthea Bell

Franck, Julia und Anthea Bell:

ISBN 10: 1846556295 / ISBN 13: 9781846556296

Published by Harvill Secker, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Back to Back Julia Franck. Transl. from the German by Anthea Bell
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846556295
• ISBN 13: 9781846556296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. publ.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Varia

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Synopsis

The moving story of a brother and a sister caught in the tide of the Cold War

Käthe is a Jewish sculptor living in East Berlin. A survivor of the Nazi era, she is a fervent socialist who has been using her political connections to secure more significant commissions. Devoted entirely to success, she is a cruel and abrasive mother to her children. Käthe barely acknowledges Ella’s vulnerable loneliness and Thomas’s quiet aspirations, and her hard-nosed brutality forces her children to build an imaginary world as a shelter from the coldness that surrounds them. But the siblings find themselves enclosed by the Berlin Wall, and unable to pursue their dreams.

Heartbreaking and shocking, Back to Back is a dark fairytale of East Germany – a moving personal story of love, betrayal and disillusionment within a single family that reflects the greater tragedy of the world around them.

About the Author

Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. Her novel The Blind Side of the Heart won the German Book Prize and sold over a million copies in Germany alone. It was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize, and was named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and US magazine Kirkus Reviews. West is her third novel to be translated into English.