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Winner of the 2013 Virginia Prize As heard on BBC Radio 4'sBook at Bedtime "Deftly told in short, punchy chapters, the thriller is a page-turner that shifts from East to West and the dark days of the 1980s to present reunification." -The Evening Times The year is 1985. East Germany is in the grip of communism. Magda, a brilliant but disillusioned young linguist, is desperate to flee to the West. When a black market deal brings her into contact with Robert, a Scottish research student at Leipzig University, she conceives a plan to escape. Robert stumbles into a complex world of shifting half-truths - one that will undo them both. More than a decade later, Robert returns to post-communist Leipzig in search of answers. Can he track Magda down? And will the past give up its secrets? Fiona Rintoul is a writer, journalist and translator. While studying German at St Andrews University in the 1980s, she was an exchange student at Leipzig University. Her experience of living and studying behind the Iron Curtain was the start of a lifelong interest in the former East Germany that culminated inThe Leipzig Affair. Fiona's writing has appeared in anthologies and magazines, includingMslexia andGutter.Outside Verdun, her new translation of Arnold Zweig's first world war classic,Erziehung vor Verdun, was published by Freight Books in May 2014. She is a graduate of the Glasgow University creative writing programme and a past winner of the Gillian Purvis new writing award and the Sceptre prize. As a journalist, she has received a State Street institutional press award and an IJP George Weidenfeld bursary for British and German journalists. Fiona lives in Glasgow. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Robert is a Scottish researcher doing research in Leipzig. Magda is a brilliant translator, who is involved with charismatic Marek. A love triangle develops while the spies watch. Does Magda love Robert or is she using him?
A stark look at the difficulty of life in East Germany during the cold war. Recommended. ( )