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Flight of Ashes

novel by Maron

Also known as: “Flugasche”

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German literature

In German literature: The 1970s and ’80s
In Flugasche (Flight of Ashes), written in East Germany during the 1970s but not published until 1981 and then in West Germany, Monika Maron depicted the tension between inner and outer reality in the attempt of a young woman journalist to present unpleasant truths about the lives…
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