Pavel's Letters

by Monika Maron

Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep, about the fortitude of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, and about what becomes of the individual mind when the powers that be turn against it.

Born in a working-class suburb of wartime Berlin, Monika Maron grew up a daughter of the East German nomenklatura, despairing of the system her mother,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186046629X
• ISBN13: 9781860466298
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.0"