Little People Made Big
Neal Ascherson: In Love with the Cause, 9 January 2014
Red Love: The Story of an East German Family
by Maxim Leo, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Pushkin, 264 pp., £16.99, September 2013,978 1 908968 51 7 Show More
by Maxim Leo, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Pushkin, 264 pp., £16.99, September 2013,
The Jew Car
by Franz Fühmann, translated by Isabel FargoCole.
Seagull, 257 pp., £13.50, June 2013,978 0 85742 086 2 Show More
by Franz Fühmann, translated by Isabel FargoCole.
Seagull, 257 pp., £13.50, June 2013,
“... Werner Schwieger, one of Maxim Leo’s grandfathers, hung out a big swastika banner after Hitler came to power. But he couldn’t get his father-in-law, Fritz, to accept one: Fritz was a left-winger. Twenty years later, in the German Democratic Republic, Werner hung out a big red flag, but he didn’t even offer one to Fritz. He thought Fritz wasn’t left-wing enough ... ”
