The recent east / Thomas Grattan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grattan, Thomas, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Germany (East)--Fiction.

Families.

Gay men--Germany (East)--Fiction.

Gay men.

Germany (East)--Fiction.

Germany (East).

Genre:

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

356 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Summary:

"A sweeping multigenerational novel following a family in East Germany as they fracture and come back together"-- Provided by publisher.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents' abandoned mansion is available for her to reclaim. Newly divorced and eager to escape upstate New York, she arrives with her two teenagers to discover a city that has become an unrecognizable ghost town. Her son Michael, free to be gay, takes to looting empty houses and partying with wannabe anarchists; daughter Adela, fascinated with the horrors of the Holocaust, buries herself in books and finds companionship in a previously unknown cousin. As the town changes from dismantled city to refugee haven and neo-Nazi hotbed, to a desirable seaside resort town, two episodes of devastating violence come to define the family forever. -- adapted from jacket

ISBN:

9780374247935

0374247935

OCLC:

1153457558