The Shadow-boxing Woman

Klappentext In "The Shadow-Boxing Woman," a novel from German writer Inka Parei, a decaying apartment building in post-Wall Berlin is home to Hell, a young woman with a passion for martial arts. When Hell's neighbor disappears she sets out across the city in search of her. In the course of her quest, she falls in love with a bank robber, confronts her own dark memories, and ends up saving more than just her missing neighbor. What is on the surface a crime novel is actually a haunting dual portrait of a city and a woman caught up in times of change and transition. This debut novel in English combines Parei's tight prose with a compulsive delight in detail that dynamically evokes many lost and overlooked corners of Berlin. Zusammenfassung A decaying apartment building in post-Wall Berlin is home to Hell, a young woman with a passion for martial arts. When Hell's neighbor disappears she sets out across the city in search of her. In the course of her quest, she falls in love with a bank robber, confronts her own dark memories, and ends up saving more than just her missing neighbor.

Product details

• Authors: Inka Parei
• Assisted by: Katy Derbyshire (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.05.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9781906497958
• ISBN: 978-1-906497-95-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Seagull Books; German List; The German List
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature