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They divided the sky / a novel by Christa Wolf ; translated into English by Luise von Flotow.
Van Pelt Library PT2685.O36 G413 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolf, Christa.
- Series:
- Literary translation collection
- Standardized Title:
- Geteilte Himmel. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 203 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Ottawa] : University of Ottawa Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- The story is set in 1960 and 1961, a moment of high political cold war tension between the East Bloc and the West, a time when many thousands of people were leaving the young German Democratic Republic (the GDR) every day in order to seek better lives in West Germany, or escape the political ideology of the new country that promoted the "farmer and peasant" state over a state run by intellectuals or capitalists.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Der geteilte Himmel.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780776607870
- 0776607871
- OCLC:
- 818407746
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