About the Author

Christa Wolf's (1929-2011) other works include Cassandra, Patterns of Childhood, and The Quest for Christa T. Katy Derbyshire is a London-born translator who has lived in Berlin for many years. Her translations of Inka Parei's Shadow-Boxing Woman and What Darkness Was, and Dorothee Elmiger's Invitation to the Bold of Heart are also published by Seagull Books.

Reviews

"At a time when East and West, bristling with weapons, faced off in rigid ideological confrontation, Wolf wrote books that crossed and overcame this divide, books that have lasted: the great, allegorical novels, the personal account of illness and pain." (Gunter Grass)"