They Divided the Sky

They Divided the Sky A Novel

Christa Wolf2013
The story is set in 1960 and 1961, a moment of high political cold war tension between the East Bloc and the West, a time when many thousands of people were leaving the young German Democratic Republic (the GDR) every day in order to seek better lives in West Germany, or escape the political ideology of the new country that promoted the "farmer and peasant" state over a state run by intellectuals or capitalists.
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Moray Lyle McIntosh@bookish_arcadia
4 stars
Dec 5, 2021