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Jacques-Pierre Amette / Andrew Brown
Brecht's Mistress
- NEW PR
- 2006
- Gebunden
- 228 Seiten
- ISBN 9781595580191
Winner of the 2003 Prix Goncourt, a novel hailed by the times literary supplement as "a delicate, elegiac tale of political failure and defeated love." A fictional story based on the final years of playwright Bertolt Brecht, "Brecht's Mistress" is a literary Cold War thriller that "recalls le Carre" ("Daily Telegraph") in its evocation of the grim world of postwar East Germany and its depiction of personal destinies intertwined with superpower rivalry. Inspired by an actual photograph taken of Brecht and a beautiful unknown young woman, Amette's novel opens on October 22, 1948, the day of Brecht's return to the Soviet-controlled zone of Berlin. Despite Brecht's abiding communist sympathies, the Stasi, East Germany's notorious secret police force, suspects his motives and recruits the young and vulnerable Viennese actress Maria Eich to spy on him. Brecht--married to
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