Half Swimmer

Name: Half Swimmer
Brand: Peirene Press Ltd
SKU: 9781916806009
Price: 2350 KES
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ISBN: 9781916806009

by Katja Oskamp

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1916806007

ISBN-13 9781916806009

Publisher Peirene Press Ltd

Imprint Peirene Press Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 17th, 2024

Print length 152 Pages

Weight 148 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 12.60 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general Fiction in translation

KSh 2,350.00

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Growing up in East Germany, as the child of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set up to become a model citizen of the GDR. But she has other ideas. And so does the course of history. Half Swimmer is a collection of memories from one life, following a girl as she forges her own identity under the GDR and the capitalism of a unified Germany.

Half Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn''t yet mastered the technique. Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set up to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history. Half Swimmer is a collection of stories from one life, following a young girl as she attempts to forge her own identity under the social pressures of both the GDR, and the capitalism of a unified Germany.

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