'A subtle and tender book about remembering... Maron turns this story of the great pains as well as the small pleasures of everyday life before, during and after the Second World War into a tale of hope against hope' - Ralf Dahrendorf.
Monika Maron was born in Berlin in 1941, grew up in East Germany, left for the West in 1988 and now lives in Berlin once again. She is the author of the novels Silent Close No.6, Flight of Ashes, Animal Triste and The Defectors. In 1992 she was distinguished with the renowned Kleist Prize, awarded annually to prominent German authors, and, in 2003, with the Friedrich H lderlin Prize.
A raw...subtle and moving book
*Independent*
Pavel's Letters has a particularly haunting quality
*Times Literary Supplement*
This writer has more reason than most to publish a memoir
*Independent on Sunday*
This is the deeply piercing story, both personal and political, of
a generation. It is hard to imagine it can be surpassed
*Die Welt*
Monika Maron makes other people's memories her own. She does so
without moral outrage, telling the story straightforwardly,
unsentimentally, not trying to show off her skill. The greatness of
this book lies in this discretion: and Pavel's Letters is a great
book
*Rolf Schneider*
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