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Rita Kuczynski - Wall Flower - 9781442648180 - V9781442648180
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Wall Flower

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Description for Wall Flower Kuczynski's fascinating memoir relates her experiences of life in East Germany as a student, a fledgling academic philosopher, an independent writer, and, above all, as a woman. Translator(s): Steinhoff, Anthony J. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.

In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight years.

Kuczynski’s fascinating memoir relates her experiences of life in East Germany as a student, a fledgling academic philosopher, an independent writer, and, above all, as a woman. Though she was never a true believer in Communism, Rita gained entry into the circles of the East German intellectual elite ... Read more

Published in English for the very first time twenty-six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wall Flower offers a rare – and critical – look at life among the East German elite. Told with wry wit and considerable candor, Kuczynski’s story offers a fascinating perspective on the rise and fall of East Germany.

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Product Details

Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
German & European Studies
Number of Pages
200
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442648180
SKU
V9781442648180
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Ref
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About Rita Kuczynski
Rita Kuczynski is a writer, journalist, and philosopher. The author of more than eleven books, both fiction and non-fiction, she lives and works in Berlin. Anthony J. Steinhoff is a professor in the Department of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Reviews for Wall Flower
‘I was quite surprised to find Rita Kuczinski’s exceptional story both instructive and mesmerizing… It can be read at many levels, this text would be a valuable addition to any course focusing on the reconciliation of East-West identities and "the logic of contradictions".’
Joyce Marie Mushaben
Journal of Contemporary Central & Eastern Europe, vol 25:03:2017

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