the other book review

Ste­fan Vogel lives in East Berlin, behind the Iron Cur­tain. His father has con­nec­tions with the West, the big Amer­ica and his mother always wanted to give the impres­sion that they were priv­i­leged. The father would bring back gifts and Ste­fan would trea­sure them. Ste­fan saw the pos­si­bil­i­ties the West offered and wanted to go. Even when that entailed sell­ing his soul to some peo­ple with power.

James Las­dun has writ­ten a intru­ig­ing story about the youth in for­mer East Berlin. What their dreams and what their pos­si­bil­i­ties were. How they sur­vived the com­mu­nis­tic soci­ety they lived in.

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