Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and postwar East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and divisions that make and ultimately break both Lisa Appignanesi1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.For Elisabeth a young painter the GDR is her generations chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of stricture and oppression. Separating them is the everwider chasm of the Party line over them loom the twin spectres of opportunity and fear, and the shadow of their defector brother Konrad. In prose as bold as a scarlet paint stroke, Brigitte Reimann battles with the clash of idealism and suppression, familial loyalty, and desire. The result is this groundbreaking classic of postwar East German literature.Translated by Lucy Jones

Binding: Paperback;160 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 234 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 9

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