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Red love, the story of an East German family, Maxim Leo ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

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Red love, the story of an East German family, Maxim Leo ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Red love

Oclc number

852808556

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Maxim Leo ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

Sub title

the story of an East German family

Summary

The gripping story, lovingly told, of what held East Germany together - and what, in the end, destroyed it. Growing up in East Berlin, Maxim Leo knew not to ask questions. All he knew was that his rebellious parents, Wolf and Anne, with their dyed hair, leather jackets, and insistence he call them by their first names, were a bit embarrassing. That there were some places you couldn't play; certain things you didn't say. Now, married with two children and the Wall a distant memory, Maxim decides to find the answers to the questions he couldn't ask. Why did his parents, once passionately in love, grow apart? Why did his father become so angry, and his mother end her career in journalism? And why did his grandfather Gerhard, the Socialist war hero, turn into a stranger? The story he unearths is, like his country's past, one of hopes, lies, cruelties, betrayals, but also love. In Red Love he captures, with warmth and unflinching honesty, why so many dreamed the German Democratic Republic would be a new world and why, in the end, it fell apart

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