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Half Swimmer

ISBN-13: 9781916806009

Contributor(s): Katja Oskamp (author), Jo Heinrich (translated by)

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: Peirene Press

Publisher Imprint: Peirene Press

Publication Date: 17-09-2024

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£12.99

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About the book

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.

Half Swimmer

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