Siblings

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A stirring novel of idealist loyalty and sibling love, by one of East Germany's most important writers

1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.

For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build an egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of stricture and oppression. Separating them is the ever-wider chasm of the party line; over them loom the twin spectres of opportunity and fear, and the shadow of their defector brother Konrad. In prose as bold as a scarlet paint stroke, Brigitte Reimann battles with the clash of idealism and suppression, familial loyalty and desire. This fervid, ground-breaking novel, written when Reimann was only twenty-seven, remains one of the cult classics of East German literature.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241555842
Published: February 2024

Number of pages: 144
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 8 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd