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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 1993
This uneven collection evokes themes of isolation and repression. There is a family's flight as Americans pour into a defeated Germany, then the juxtaposition of a mother's care for her daughter with the "impenetrable maze of motives and countermotives'' during an East German factory brigade meeting. Muddled prose loses the story in the loquacious "June Afternoon'' and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More