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Author: Uwe Johnson
First Published: 1987
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Historical realism
Time of Work: 1931-1967 and August, 1967, to August, 1968
Setting: New York City; Mecklenburg, East Germany; and Richmond, England
Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Historical fiction
Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Memory, New York City, 1940’s, Guilt, 1930’s, England or English people, Death or dying, Ethics, Germany or German people
Locales: New York, NY, Mecklenburg, Germany, Richmond, England

Gesine Cresspahl (gay-ZEE-neh KREHS-pahl), who was born in 1933 in the province of Mecklenburg, Germany. She immigrated to New York in 1961 and has worked in a bank there since 1964. She lives in a modest apartment with her daughter, Marie, with whom she conducts frank conversations about her own and her parents’ lives. Her thoughts are committed to a diary that extends from August, 1967, to August, 1968, and that mingles the present with the past. From 1939 to 1945, she underwent the normal education of a German child under the Nazis. After 1945, she...

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