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West

Julia Franck
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A novel about fresh starts and past lives from the winner of the German Book Prize - now an award-winning film

Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind the prying eyes of the Stasi.

But the West is not all she hoped for. Nelly and her children are held in Marienfelde, a refugee processing centre and no-man’s-land between East and West. There she meets Krystyna, a Polish woman who hopes that medical treatment in the West will save her dying brother; Hans, a troubled actor released from prison in the East; and John, a CIA man monitoring the refugees for possible Stasi spies. All lives cross here, in this gateway to a new life.

Now an award-winning film

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
15 November 2015
Pages
304
ISBN
9780099554325

A novel about fresh starts and past lives from the winner of the German Book Prize - now an award-winning film

Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind the prying eyes of the Stasi.

But the West is not all she hoped for. Nelly and her children are held in Marienfelde, a refugee processing centre and no-man’s-land between East and West. There she meets Krystyna, a Polish woman who hopes that medical treatment in the West will save her dying brother; Hans, a troubled actor released from prison in the East; and John, a CIA man monitoring the refugees for possible Stasi spies. All lives cross here, in this gateway to a new life.

Now an award-winning film

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
15 November 2015
Pages
304
ISBN
9780099554325

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