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A Model Childhood

Christa Wolf author H Rappolt translator U Molinaro translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:9th Feb '83

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This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg. Other work by the author includes The Quest for Christa and No Place on Earth .

A MODEL CHILDHOOD delves painfully into the German past... The honesty, the apalling hindsight-driven ironies, the cool searching narrative: this art of a major writer offers just a glimmer, just the faintest apalled glimmer, of comprehension as to how it could all have grown, how it could have happened... the horror which so deformed Europe's recent past. * SCOTSMAN *
A piercing account of the inner lives of artists at a time of great social change. * THE TIMES *
A vivid testimony. * THE MAIL ON SUNDAY *

ISBN: 9780860683773

Dimensions: 203mm x 127mm x 24mm

Weight: 450g

416 pages