Siblings by Brigitte Reimann Paperback Book 9780241555842

Spare chilling with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and postwar East Germany conjuring the political dreams and divisions that make and ultimately break both Lisa Appignanesi1960 The border between East and West Germany has closedFor Elisabeth a young painter the GDR is her generations chance to build a glorious egalitarian socialist future For her brother Uli it is a place of stricture and oppression Separating them is the everwider chasm of the Party line over them loom the twin spectres of opportunity and fear and the shadow of their defector brother Konrad In prose as bold as a scarlet paint stroke Brigitte Reimann battles with the clash of idealism and suppression familial loyalty and desire The result is this groundbreaking classic of postwar East German literatureTranslated by Lucy Jones