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  • Medea

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Medea is among the most notorious women in the canon of Greek tragedy: a woman scorned who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In her gripping new novel, Christa Wolf explodes this myth, revealing a fiercely independent woman ensnared in a brutal political battle.Medea, driven by her conscience to leave her corrupt homeland, arrives in Corinth with her husband, the hero Jason. He is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • They Divided the Sky

    A Novel by Christa Wolf

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Translated by Luise von Flotow ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which went up on August 13, 1961.The story is set in 1960 and 1961, a moment of high political cold war ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • City of Angels

    or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A Novel

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writerThree years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green ... Read more

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  • August

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Translated by Katy Derbyshire ...
    Series series The German List
    Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contained veiled criticisms of the Communist regime which landed her on government watch lists. Her ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • The Gifted

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

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