Books
by Jenny Erpenbecj
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I read this book because I was interested in the experiences of East Germans as the Wall came down. I struggled to finish it, persevering because I thought that an International Booker Prize winner must be good. Very little of the book is about how the political situation affected ordinary people. Most of it covers, at tedious length, the extra-marital affair between a late fifties man with double standards and a nineteen-year-old woman. Most unpleasant controlling behaviour.
(Ros Cook - bwl 117 Summer 2025) |
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