MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Distant Signs by Anne Richter
Novel explores the mindset of the younger generation in the GDR
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
ANNE RICHTER, German author of this new novel on the GDR, was 16 when the Berlin Wall came down and her story is that of three generations and two families as the narrative unfolds from 1965 to 1992.
It begins as Margret confronts her professor father Friedrich in a lecture. She represents a new generation challenging their parents and the realities of the East German state, in which Friedrich has achieved a privileged position in society. His wife does not work and they have a housekeeper and a gardener.
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