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By: Julia Franck ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Contributors: Bell, Anthea, translator
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780802121677; 9780802192943
Subjects: Jewish women; Women sculptors; Single mothers; Fiction
Work titles: Rüchen an rüchen
Description: Raised by a harsh Jewish single mother who prioritizes her socialist party connections over her family in mid-twentieth-century East Berlin, Thomas is forced to abandon his dream of becoming a writer while his sister, Ella, becomes increasingly introverted.
Notes: Translated from German of: Rüchen an rüchen.

"This edition first published in Great Britain in 2013 by Harvill Secker, an imprint of The Random House Group Limited, London"--title page verso.

Translated from the German.