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Informationen zum Autor Eugen Ruge was born in the Urals and studied mathematics in Berlin. Before leaving the GDR for the West in 1988 he was a writer! contributing to documentaries made at the state-owned DEFA Studios. Since 1989 he has been writing and translating for theatres and broadcasters! and periodically teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts. In Times of Fading Light is his first novel. Klappentext Trade paperback. A sweeping novel following one family over 50 years and 4 generations in East Germany. Ruge draws on his own family history while exploring the intertwining of politics! love and kinship in the GDR. Sold more than 350!000 copies in Germany! and won the German Book Prize 2011. Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe. Anna Funder, author of STASILAND Eugen Ruge is to the GDR what Hans Fallada was to the Third Reich. In Times of Fading Lightmay be a novel as important in the whole literature of the Cold War and its aftermath as anything written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Philip Kerr A sweeping story of one family over fifty years and four generations in East Germany. Zusammenfassung 'Already hailed as a Cold War classic.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year 'Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland International bestseller and Winner of the German Book Prize A sweeping story of one family over four generations in East Germany: the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime.
