Hitchhiking : twelve German tales / Gabriele Eckart ; translated & with an afterword & notes by Wayne Kvam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eckart, Gabriele.

Series:

European women writers series

Standardized Title:

Per Anhalter. English

Language:

English

German

Physical Description:

xi, 142 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Summary:

First published in East Germany in 1982 and in West Germany four years later, this collection of short prose firmly established Gabriele Eckart in German literary circles (her poetry had earlier won the critics' praise). Eckart's stories offer a panorama of East German life: sharply drawn vignettes in which "the familiar, the all-too-familiar, takes place alongside the surprising and the bizarre. . . . Authentic sketches with delicate strokes, concise, to the point."- (Aschaffenburg) Main-Echo.

Although East Germany disappeared from the map in 1990, the experiences of the people who endured, evaded, challenged, and thwarted the socialist regime will long affect a reunified Germany. These stories are powerful and moving reminders of what conditions were like not so long ago.

Notes:

Translation of: Per Anhalter.

Includes bibliographical references (page [143]).

ISBN:

0803218141

0803267223

OCLC:

24011450