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Half Swimmer

Katja Oskamp

Übersetzer Jo Heinrich

Verlag: Peirene Press

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Beschreibung

Half Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn't yet mastered the technique.

Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history.

Half Swimmer is a collection of stories from one life, following a young girl as she attempts to forge her own identity under the social pressures of both the GDR, and the capitalism of a unified Germany.
Verfügbar seit: 17.09.2024.
Drucklänge: 152 Seiten.

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