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'Secrets and spies, love and tragedy in Stasi East Germany.
Brandenburg 1993: The Berlin Wall is down, the country is reunified and thirty-year-old school teacher Michael Ritter feels his life is falling apart. His wife has thrown him out, his new West German headmaster has fired him for being a socialist, former Party member and he is still clinging on to the wreckage of the state that shaped him. Disenfranchised and disenchanted, Michael heads home to care for his terminally ill mother.
Before she dies, she urges him to seek out an evangelical priest, Pastor Bruck, who is the only one who knows the truth about his father. When Michael eventually tracks him down, he is taken on a journey of dark discoveries, one which will shatter his foundations, but ultimately bring him hope to rebuild them.' (Publisher's blurb)
Brandenburg 1993: The Berlin Wall is down, the country is reunified and thirty-year-old school teacher Michael Ritter feels his life is falling apart. His wife has thrown him out, his new West German headmaster has fired him for being a socialist, former Party member and he is still clinging on to the wreckage of the state that shaped him. Disenfranchised and disenchanted, Michael heads home to care for his terminally ill mother.
Before she dies, she urges him to seek out an evangelical priest, Pastor Bruck, who is the only one who knows the truth about his father. When Michael eventually tracks him down, he is taken on a journey of dark discoveries, one which will shatter his foundations, but ultimately bring him hope to rebuild them.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 2 March no. 5683 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of The Berlin Crossing 2012 single work novel -
Life before and after the Wall
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 January 2012; (p. 25)
— Review of The Berlin Crossing 2012 single work novel -
Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 15 January 2012; (p. 39)
— Review of The Berlin Crossing 2012 single work novel
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Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 15 January 2012; (p. 39)
— Review of The Berlin Crossing 2012 single work novel -
Life before and after the Wall
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 January 2012; (p. 25)
— Review of The Berlin Crossing 2012 single work novel -
Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 2 March no. 5683 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of The Berlin Crossing 2012 single work novel
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Berlin,
cGermany,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- ca. 1993
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