Flight of Ashes by Monika Maron
Flight of Ashes by Monika Maron. Translated by David Newton Marinelli. 1986 Readers International (c/r 1981), 188 pages. According to the jacket copy: "Monika Maron is a daughter of the East German political elite---her father was interior minister in the infancy of the communist state. Yet her novel breaks decisively with the prescribed silences of her milieu---about the press, the Party, the position of women, the real lives of workers in a Workers' State." In a Publishers Weekly review of Flight of Ashes, her first novel, "What ensues is a poignant tale of a woman's battle to be herself, impatient, honest, emotional and a dreamer like her peasant grandfather in a society where people think and move like robots."
Condition: VG
"What do I have to fear? The bed I'll die in. The life that I'm not living. The monotony unto death and thereafter."
Flight of Ashes by Monika Maron. Translated by David Newton Marinelli. 1986 Readers International (c/r 1981), 188 pages. According to the jacket copy: "Monika Maron is a daughter of the East German political elite---her father was interior minister in the infancy of the communist state. Yet her novel breaks decisively with the prescribed silences of her milieu---about the press, the Party, the position of women, the real lives of workers in a Workers' State." In a Publishers Weekly review of Flight of Ashes, her first novel, "What ensues is a poignant tale of a woman's battle to be herself, impatient, honest, emotional and a dreamer like her peasant grandfather in a society where people think and move like robots."
Condition: VG
"What do I have to fear? The bed I'll die in. The life that I'm not living. The monotony unto death and thereafter."