Three women from Haiti
Zusammenfassung: The three stories of the triptych concern women caught up in historical events across almost 500 years of Haitian history, beginning with the time of Christopher Columbus's exploratory voyages to the New World and ending in the 1970s...
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Zusammenfassung: The three stories of the triptych concern women caught up in historical events across almost 500 years of Haitian history, beginning with the time of Christopher Columbus's exploratory voyages to the New World and ending in the 1970s with the repressive measures of the Bébé Doc Duvalier regime. These three uncompromising portrayals of women caught up in life-threatening situations form Anna Seghers's testimony work, demonstrating her lifelong concern as a revolutionary writer to give voice to those marginalized in history. Also included here is the 1948 essay Seghers wrote about the life of Toussaint Louverture and his pivotal role in the Haitian Revolution.
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The dead girls' class trip
selected stories
Zusammenfassung: "We are translating Anna Seghers's stories because we are the English language publisher of two of her novels, Transit and The Seventh Cross. Her stories are an integral part of her work as a writer and we want to make them available...
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Zusammenfassung: "We are translating Anna Seghers's stories because we are the English language publisher of two of her novels, Transit and The Seventh Cross. Her stories are an integral part of her work as a writer and we want to make them available to English readers. This will be a collection of Seghers short stories with new translations and the first time these stories, with this new translation, will be available to English readers"--(Provided by publisher.)
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Crossing
a love story
Zusammenfassung: "Aboard a cargo ship sailing from Brazil to the German Democratic Republic in the mid-1950s, two men strike up a conversation: newly-qualified doctor, Ernst Triebel, and engineer Franz Hammer, two GDR citizens of contrasting...
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Zusammenfassung: "Aboard a cargo ship sailing from Brazil to the German Democratic Republic in the mid-1950s, two men strike up a conversation: newly-qualified doctor, Ernst Triebel, and engineer Franz Hammer, two GDR citizens of contrasting character, brought together by chance on an Atlantic crossing. During the next three weeks Triebel will relate to Hammer what amounts to his life story. Hammer, a reluctant sea passenger, is initially uninterested, but once the love interest of the story’s subtitle enters the fray he is gripped until the memorable climax to Triebel’s narrative. The reader is invited aboard Seghers’s borderless maritime community from the first page to share in this timeless meditation on the joy and pain of human existence."--Amazon.com
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