![]() ![]() ![]() Now the celebrated author and secret Stasi informer is ready to confess. But in the Workers’ and Peasants’ State, knowing the deceiver from the deceived, the betrayer from the betrayed, isn’t just difficult: it is a matter of life and death. Krug decides that if his affair with Theresa is to prove more than a fling, he must employ a small deception. But there is hope for the older man: the unwelcome masterpiece is dangerously political. Disconcertingly, the book is good―very good. But Theresa has also caught the eye of a cocky young scriptwriter who delights in satirizing Krug’s work.Īsked to appraise a mysterious manuscript, Bruno is disturbed to find that the author is none other than his rival. brilliant, evocative and accurate novel.”― The Times (London) In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, author of a single world-famous novel written twenty years earlier, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West. ![]() “Remarkable.Superbly anchored in place and time. ![]()
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