The Distant Lover

Name: The Distant Lover
Author: Christoph Hein

by Christoph Hein

Woman separated from beloved searches through letters and memory

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Christoph Hein

German author from the GDR whose novel The Distant Lover is one of the finest works of German-language fiction of the 1980s, a cold, precise portrait of emotional alienation in communist East Germany.

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