Book description
'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde
'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro
'A masterpiece' Maurice Szafran
May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible…
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1 author picked The Granddaughter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book showed the power of fiction to reveal a contemporary reality - in
its case life in Germany and Australia in the 1960s.
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