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Pub Date 7 Nov 2013 | Archive Date 27 Jan 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
The moving story of a brother and a sister caught in the tide of the Cold War
Käthe is a Jewish sculptor living in East Berlin. A survivor of the Nazi era, she is a fervent socialist who has been using her political connections to secure more significant commissions. Devoted entirely to success, she is a cruel and abrasive mother to her children. She barely acknowledges Ella’s vulnerable loneliness and Thomas’s quiet aspirations, and her hard-nosed brutality forces her children to build an imaginary world as a shelter from the coldness that surrounds them.
As the Berlin Wall goes up, dreams are shattered, lives fall apart and this dark fairytale of East Germany unfolds.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available for readers in the UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada) and Europe only.
Advance Praise
Franck is an outstanding talent of the Germany literary landscape - Stuttgarter Zeitung
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virtuoso creator of poetically charged moods. . . never before has East
Germany been so radically depicted as dead at birth as in the
arresting, magical narrative web of Julia Franck - Literarische Welt
A novel that, with its hypnotic language, creates its own realm of relevance... You dive back into the real world in shock - Tages Anzeiger
Marketing Plan
The Blind Side of the Heart was shortlisted for the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
The Blind Side of the Heart won the German Book Prize (the German equivalent of the Booker Prize), and sold over a million copies in Germany
Her books have been published in over 30 languages
A
fascinating period in European history serves as a backdrop to this
heartbreaking story: the building of the Berlin Wall and the rise of the
Stasi
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448113163 |
| PRICE | £12.98 (GBP) |
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