What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea?

by Franz Fühmann

Book Overview

The dignity of cognitively disabled people and the ethics of representing their lives are at the heart of an extraordinary yet little-known book first published in the former German Democratic Republic. Was f r eine Insel in was f r einem Meer, or What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea (Rostock, Hinstorff, 1986) depicts residents of a church-run institution for people with cognitive disabilities in astonishing black-and-white photographs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643150278
• ISBN13: 9781643150277
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Lever Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 8.5"