| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
297 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
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. But Theresa has also caught the eye of a cocky young scriptwriter who delights in satirizing Krug's work. Asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript, Bruno is disturbed to find that the author is none other than his rival. Disconcertingly, the book is good--very good. But there is hope for the older man: the unwelcome masterpiece is dangerously political. Krug decides that if his affair with Theresa is to prove more than a fling, he must employ a small deception. 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. Now the celebrated author and secret Stasi informer is ready to confess... |
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Authors -- Fiction.
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Music students -- Fiction.
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Satirists -- Fiction.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
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Germany (East) -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780393239331 hardcover |
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0393239330 hardcover |
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