Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

✍ Scribed by Leo, Maxim

• Book ID: 110466696
• Publisher: Steerforth Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781782270683

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the European Book Prize

"The East isn't far away at all. It clings to me, it goes with me everywhere. It's like a big family that you can't shake off ..."

"Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland

"A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian Barnes

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 quit her career in journalism? And why did his...