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Pavel's Letters

By: Monika Maron

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Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep, about the fortitude of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, and about what becomes of the individual mind when the powers that be turn against it. Born in a working-class suburb of wartime Berlin, Monika Maron grew up a daughter of the East German nomenklatura, despairing of the system her mother, Hella, helped create. Haunted by the ghosts of her Baptist grandparents, she questions her mother, whose selective memory throws up obstacles to Maron's understanding of her grandparents' horrifying denouement in Polish exile. Maron reconstructs their lives from fragments of memory and a forgotten box of letters. In telling her family's powerful and heroic story, she has written a memoir that has the force of a great novel and also stands both as an elaborate metaphor for the shame of the twentieth century and a life-affirming monument to her ancestors.

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Random House

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144810548X

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Animal Triste

By: Monika Maron

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Animal Triste

By: Monika Maron

In an autumnal love story of erotic obsession, possessiveness, remembrance, oblivion, and time, an elderly woman dwells upon a failed love affair of some time past, when she was no longer young but not yet old. The narrator relives meeting her lover, Franz, at the natural history museum, when, for the first time in her life, she experiences all-consuming love and absolute happiness. Ultimately the affair founders because of her inability to believe that Franz will actually leave his wife. After he disappears from her life, she withdraws from the world, waiting for his return and revisiting their time together over and over in a never-ending cycle of obsession. Her love for Franz becomes a compulsive suffering from which she can neither free herself nor withhold anything.

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156

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803282559

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9780803282551

Pavel's Letters

By: Monika Maron

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The COVID-19 Pandemic

The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

By: Tapas Kumar Koley,Monika Dhole

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The COVID-19 Pandemic

The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

By: Tapas Kumar Koley,Monika Dhole

This book presents a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the novel coronavirus pandemic, as it happened. This volume examines the first responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the contexts of earlier epidemics and the epidemiological basics of infectious diseases. Further, it discusses patterns in the spread of the disease; the management and containment of infections at the personal, national, and global level; effects on trade and commerce; the social and psychological impact on people; the disruption and postponement of international events; the role of various international organizations like the WHO in the search for solutions; and the race for a vaccine or a cure. Based on new data and latest developments, the second edition of this volume explores the global spread of COVID-19 since 2019 and examines the emergence of the evolving coronavirus variants (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omicron). Further, it extensively discusses what we have since discovered on the disease, along with recent progress on treatments and vaccines. Authored by a medical professional and an economist working on the frontlines, this book gives a nuanced, verified and fact-checked analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and its global response. A one-stop resource on the COVID-19 outbreak, it is indispensable for every reader and a holistic work for scholars and researchers of medical sociology, public health, political economy, public policy and governance, sociology of health and medicine, and paramedical and medical practitioners. It will also be a great resource for policymakers, government departments and civil society organizations working in the area.

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212

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Taylor & Francis

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100078956X

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Animal triste

roman

By: Monika Maron

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Animal triste

roman

By: Monika Maron

Une femme se souvient de son dernier amour. À présent cloîtrer chez elle, hors du temps, oubliée du monde extérieur, elle revit sans merci, jusqu'à l'usure totale des souvenirs, chaque instant de cette passion qui l'a illuminée et dévastée. Au fil de son monologue obsessionnel se précisent les données d'une histoire qui aurait pu être banale. Elle avait près de 50 ans quand elle a rencontré Franz, un homme marié qui l'a aimée. C'était en 1990, un an après la fin de l'ère communiste, qu'elle désigne comme " l'étrange période ". Cet amour lui a apporté tout le bonheur possible, toute la souffrance aussi, celle d'une jalousie suppliciante, distillée jour après jour. Quand Franz a disparu - est-il mort ? l'a-t-il quittée ? -, sa vie à elle s'est arrêtée. Dans la mêlée de la réunification allemande, dans le chaos de la ville de Berlin, l'héroïne de Monika Maron invoque l'amour comme ultime donnée anarchique, qui se place au-dessus de tout ordre pour ériger le sien propre. Animal triste est un roman poignant, intense, furieux qui, au-delà du dialogue contestataire que Monika Maron a mené avec le régime communiste dans ses précédents romans, confirme l'immense talent de l'auteur de La Transfuge, mai cette fois au service d'un thème universel : grandeur et misère de la passion amoureuse.

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198

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222610058X

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9782226100580

Housebound

Selfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German Fiction

By: Monika Shafi

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Selfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German Fiction

By: Monika Shafi

Reveals and analyzes the current strong emphasis in German literature on the role of houses and homes in our constructions of selfhood and belonging.

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223

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1571135243

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9781571135247

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