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Half swimmer / Katja Oskamp ; translated from the German by Jo Heinrich.
Van Pelt Library PT2715.S53 H3513 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oskamp, Katja, 1970- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Halbschwimmer. English.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Germany (East)--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Nineteen eighties--Fiction.
- Nineteen eighties.
- Germany (East)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Germany (East).
- Germany (East)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Linked stories.
- Physical Description:
- 150 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bath : Peirene Press Ltd., 2024.
- Summary:
- "Half Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn't yet mastered the technique. Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set up to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history. Half Swimmer is a collection of stories from one life, following a young girl as she attempts to forge her own identity under the social pressures of both the GDR, and the capitalism of a unified Germany."--Publisher.
- Notes:
- Translated from the German.
- ISBN:
- 1916806007
- 9781916806009
- OCLC:
- 1433075835
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