Monika Maron, Author Readers International $16.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-930523-40-4
East Berliner Maron (Flight of Ashes) writes of a woman who defects not from a country but from her life. One day, historian Rosalind Polkowski finds herself in sort of a trance. ""For two days she has been lying, sitting in bed, on the rug, in the...
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Monika Maron, Author, David N. Marinelli, Translator Readers International $14.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-930523-94-7
This third novel by Maron ( The Defector ), whose books were banned in her native East Germany, is a first-person narrative by an intellectual who is similarly disgusted by the East German regime. Rosalind has opted out of ``thinking in return for...
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Monika Maron, Author, David N. Marinelli, Translator, Klaus Staeck, Illustrator Readers International $16.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-930523-22-0
Single mother Josefa Nadler is a journalist at the government-run Illustrated Weekly in East Berlin. One day Josefa is sent to B., an industrial city, to write a routine monthly profile of a hardworking comrade. There she finds horrific working...
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