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PublisherReaders International

ISBN-100930523946

ISBN-139780930523947

eBay Product ID (ePID)1110498

Product Key Features

Original LanguageGerman

Book TitleSilent Close No. 6

Number of Pages180 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral

Publication Year2018

GenreFiction

AuthorMonika Maron

Book SeriesSilent Close No. 6 Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight6.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-083085

Dewey Edition20

Series Volume NumberVol. 6

Volume NumberVol. 6

Dewey Decimal833/.914

SynopsisMonika Maron was born in wartime Berlin in 1941 to an anti-fascist mother of Polish Jewish ancestry and a German father. Her step-father was the first Minister of the Interior of the new East German state, having been chief of police. Following her early upbringing in a Communist family, Maron joined the Party in 1965, thinking to oppose "anti-democratic" tendencies from within the Party. She soon understood, however, that "you cannot close up a people in a wall". She left the Party and worked in television, as a drama school teacher, and for six years as a journalist. Silent Close No. 6 concerns one of the high Communist rulers, whose self-explanations are never allowed to justify his past actions. The novel is an important critique of Germany's recent past by one of the country's leading intellectuals., In this extraordinary, prizewinning novel, Monika Maron says farewell to the East Germany where she grew up as the stepchild of an lite communist official not unlike retired Professor Beerenbaum, who hires disaffected writer Rosalind Polkowski to transcribe his memoirs. Shortly after the Berlin Wall, which Maron loathed, fell and her country disappeared, she returned home to write this subtle yet scathing look at herself living among the thinkers, drinkers, and elderly believers who kept the communist state going to the very end. Part argument with her father and cry of pain across the grave, part exploration of her own role and guilt as a follower in the GDR's sad funeral procession, Silent Close No. 6 has lost none of its depth of feeling, its power or its honesty. With her sharp feminist vision, Monika Maron spares neither foolish lovers, nor dilettantes, nor the upholders of state power - and certainly not herself. Here is essential reading to understand the Germany of yesterday, and also that of today. "Icy prose." NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Maron writes with wit, economy and stylistic assurance." THE VILLAGE VOICE "One of the best writers of her generation." LE MONDE

LC Classification NumberPT2673.A4686S7513