The history of history
Subtitle: a novel of Berlin
By: Ida Hattemer-Higgins
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780307272775
Subjects: Young women; Fiction; Amnesiacs; History
Description: Two years after a bedraggled woman stumbles out of the Berlin forest with no memory of what has happened to her, she receives a mysterious letter from a self-styled memory doctor at the same time the city transforms into a horror zone of ghosts and bizarre mutations.
Table of contents: title: PART 1: FLESH; title: The Persistence of Documents; title: The Glass Globe; title: Time, Flowers; title: The Speculum; title: The Slur of Vision; title: Magda's Face; title: Privacy and Devotion; title: Don Quixote of the SS; title: The Whale Ducks; title: The Concubine's Mind; title: Sachsenhausen; title: The History of History; title: Face Tattoos; title: Sweet Vitaly; title: Tales of the Overripe; title: PART 2: ROPE; title: Redemption Beckoning; title: An Expectation of Mirrors; title: They Played Hearts; title: Roses for Rahel; title: The Violence of Nostalgia; title: Escape from Berlin; title: A Taxonomy of Sins; title: Beautiful Albert; title: The Children of Grimm; title: A Lesson for Hussies Everywhere; title: Erich; title: The Lake of Fire; title: Dreams During Illness; title: PART 3: TUNNEL; title: Iron Waves; title: The Return of the Tundra; title: The Isolation of the Fanatic; title: The Doctors of Charite; title: The U7; title: Reconciliation with Vitaly; title: The Glow; title: Margaret; title: Erich Again; title: Arrival of the Valkyries