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Informationen zum Autor Meike Ziervogel is the author of six novels. She founded an award-winning publishing house in the UK, Peirene Press, and co-founded Alsama Project, an innovative NGO providing secondary education in refugee camps in the Middle East. Klappentext Trine and her mother live on the German coast. The mudflats that surround them disappear and reappear with the North Sea tides. Anna roams the beaches collecting flotsam and jetsam to make art, Trine loves playing on a war-time shipwreck. That is, until Trine's brother appears. Zusammenfassung Trine and her mother live on the German coast. The mudflats that surround them disappear and reappear with the North Sea tides. Anna roams the beaches collecting flotsam and jetsam to make art, Trine loves playing on a war-time shipwreck. That is, until Trine’s brother appears.
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Meike Ziervogel is the author of six novels. She founded an award-winning publishing house in the UK, Peirene Press, and co-founded Alsama Project, an innovative NGO providing secondary education in refugee camps in the Middle East.
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Ziervogel grew up in Germany and this taut, mysterious novel not only conjures female subjectivities and grief, but it also paints a haunting portrait of the country in the 1950s Germany, with its greater sense of loss, and the looming spectre of crimes committed during the war.
Arifa Akbar The Guardian
