Wall Flower: A Life on the German Border

by Rita Kuczynski

In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight years.

Kuczynski's fascinating memoir relates her experiences of life in East Germany as a student, a fledgling academic philosopher, an independent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442616229
• ISBN13: 9781442616226
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"