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What can an irascible East German tell us about how society shapes relations between the sexes? A lot it turns out. Acclaimed as one of Wolfgang Hilbig's major works, The Females finds the lauded author focusing his labyrinthine, mercurial mind on how unequal societies can pervert sexuality and destroy a healthy, productive understanding of gender. It begins with a factory laborer who ogles women in secret on the job. When those same women mysteriously...

"East Village, 1989 Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else unknown to Ava: Renate Bauer, a childhood friend. As her...

A story of friendship, first love, and an impossible choice between integrity and duty, family and friends, all while fighting for a dream. Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s. Written in stunning lyrical verse,...

"En 1979 el aclamado futbolista Lutz Eigendorf lo abandona todo, a su mujer, Gabi, a su hija de dos años, Sandy, su trabajo y su patria, la Alemania comunista, en busca de libertad. La huida de la estrella del Dynamo de Berlín supone un duro golpe para el sistema socialista y para Erich Mielke, presidente del equipo y, además, jefe de la Stasi, el servicio de inteligencia. El jugador intenta reunir a su familia al oeste del muro, pero Gabi y Sandy...