She is a cruel and abrasive mother to her children Käthe barely acknowledges Ella's vulnerable loneliness and Thomas's uiet aspirations and her hard nosed brutality forces her children to build an imaginary world as a shelter from the coldness that surrounds them But the siblings find t.
rücken book rücken book Rücken an epub Rücken an Rücken MOBIShe is a cruel and abrasive mother to her children Käthe barely acknowledges Ella's vulnerable loneliness and Thomas's uiet aspirations and her hard nosed brutality forces her children to build an imaginary world as a shelter from the coldness that surrounds them But the siblings find t.
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBIFrom my review for the Washington Independent Review of Books Back to Back is the story of Thomas and Ella a brother and sister growing up in the German Democratic Republic in the late 1950s The majority of their family fled Germany to escape Hitler or Stalin so the children live alone with their mother Käthe and a lodger called but not named Ulrich Käthe is a sculptor a Party true believer and a domestic tyrant who alternately exploits and neglects her children denying them love and treating them with cruel disdain Ulrich is believed to be an agent for the Stasi – thus the pseudonym The first half of the book is designed like a collection of short stories each chapter dedicated to an awful event from Thomas and Ella’s childhood there is the time they are left completely unattended for days without enough food and decide to clean the house to please the absent Käthe She eventually returns but doesn’t noti
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBII don't know if it's the writing or the translating or the era 1950s Totalitarian East Germany or the combination of factors but I just did not understand this book Thomas and Ella grow up neglected by an artist named Kathe; throughout the book I was confused as to what their relationship was it seems they are Kathe's son and daughter but she refuses to be their mother also there are twins she abandons There were fragments of story lines I was able to follow intermittently but it was frustrating the way each was so abruptly discontinued and at odds with the others This author's style seems to be ambiguity and non seuitur; I was further irritated by grammatica
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBIThe State as MotherThomas and Ella ten and eleven respectively work all day to get the house ready for their mother who has been away She hardly notices and only reproves them for picking flowers from the garden Thinking to run away they take an old boat out on the lake by their house in the eastern suburbs of Berlin and return in the morning frozen almost to death Their mother is not even aware that they had gone Julia Franck has already introduced us to one monster mother in her best selling novel The Blindness of the Heart although that book ends by showing that the apparently callous act of abandoning one's child in a train station may have had a loving reason But there is no such reason in the actions of this single mother a sculptor named Käthe living in East Germany in the years immediately before and after the erection of the Wall She may be the coldest least feeling woman I have come across in modern fiction And her household out grims Grimm for deprivation and callousnessF
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBITwo children Ella and Thomas ages 11 and 10 respectively are left at home for weeks when their absent mother does her work for the country But when she returns instead of acknowledging the good work they've done bringing the place to sparkling standards all she does is criticize them for wasting cleaning liuid This continues and gets increasingly worse the heating is turned off and the door to the coal cellar is locked There's not much money and there's certainly no love There's work at a stone uarry where the workers take it out in a horrible way for being a rich and good at studies Horrifyingly a blind eye is turned to the sexual abuse that happens right under the mother's nose and implications are that she knows about it I look at this book as confirmation of all the worst thing
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBIMir hat diese Buch nicht gefallen Ich mag nicht die Geschichte dieser abwesende Mutter und manchmal morbiden Beziehung zwischen den beiden Brüdern und diesemhistorischen Kontext Ich mag es nicht der Weg oder die Art in der es geschrieben wurde Alle sprechen gut aus dem Buch des Franck Mittagsfrau ich denke ich werde es lesen um ihre letzte Chance geben aber ich wollte nicht dass für allesTo me this book was awful I do not like is the history of this absent
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBIIt’s the 50s and 60s the early years of the German Democratic Republic The siblings Thomas and Ella live with their mother Käthe in a sprawling old villa in East BerlinKäthe works as a sculptress and is passionate about socialist ideals but her privileged and bourgeois background alone make her suspicious in the eyes of the State Security who’ve stationed a mysterious lodger with the familyKäthe is a harsh mother cruel and neglectful and in a way sacrifices her children to the new socialist orderThomas and Ella have formed a strong bond and look out for each other but life is a struggle in their little dysfunctional unitElla tries to rebel she is a wild free spirit but after being sexually abused by the lodger is pitched into a life of low self esteem and failureThomas conforms he is Käthe’s golden boy although all he really wants to do is leave But the borders are closed and after getting nowhere he and his new girlfriend only s
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBIThis is a strong innovative but very depressing novel It’s set in East Germany in the 50s and 60s as the Berlin Wall is being built It centers around Thomas and Ella who are ten and eleven as the novel begins and eigh
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBII was grossly under prepared for the intensity of Julia Franck’s Back to Back Which is probably why I found it so disturbingThe story begins in 1954 and centers around a single family living in Berlin in the socialist East The mother Käthe is
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBIThe book opens in 1954 with Thomas and Ella children of just 10 and 11 years old left alone at home for 2 weeks while their self absorbed and neglectful mother Käthe a sculptor pursues her own career These are the early days of the GDR and Käthe is both ambitious and a committed socialist to the detriment of her family Her younger children whose names we never know and who are referred to throughout merely a
MOBI fantasy books.co ☆ Rücken an Rücken ePUB × Rücken an Kindle - rücken book, rücken book, Rücken an epub, Rücken an Rücken MOBIThis is a very brave though somewhat uneven story It's originally in German so you never know what is lost or gained in translation but it certainly paints a gray as opposed to black and white picture post WWII life in the German Democratic Republic than the sensationalist portrayals in movies and other books The movie The Lives of Others comes to mind even though I loved it The overwhelming aspect of this story is listening to an artistmother buy into the Utopian vision