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Back to back / Julia Franck, translated from the German by Anthea Bell

By: London : Vintage Books, 2014Description: 328 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780099572251
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PT2666 FRA 2014
Summary: The moving story of a brother and a sister caught in the tide of the Cold War Kathe is a Jewish sculptor living in East Berlin. She 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books City Campus Library General Stacks City Campus Library Fiction PT2666 FRA 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c. 1 Available 032473
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This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2013.
Awards: Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 (UK)
Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2015 (UK)

The moving story of a brother and a sister caught in the tide of the Cold War Kathe is a Jewish sculptor living in East Berlin. She 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.

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