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Red Love: The Story Of An East German Family (2014)

by Maxim Leo(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1908968516 (ISBN13: 9781908968517)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Pushkin Press

review 1: I dont know about you, but I always feel like history happens to other people, in other places. And Red Love makes the case that one german family experienced more than its fair share of the 20th century: over three generations, the Leos lived under democracy, fascism, socialism, and democracy again. In telling his grandparents', parents', and his own stories, Maxim Leo investigates how their different backgrounds and temperaments - as well as simple serendipity - shaped their experience of these ideologies. His clear, casual, immediate writing brings you in so close that you realize that you are like these people and are indeed embedded in a "history" that feels a lot like (as it also did to them) just life. This thrilling and thought-provoking book is the best non-fic... moretion I've read all year.
review 2: Fascinating topic. It would have been nice if the English translation had had a few extras like acronym guides, timelines, maybe a family tree. I was a bit unclear as to which side was which in certain parts. Leo wrote this book in German and I'm sure his original audience was intimately familiar with the characters and event, but someone more removed (i.e. me, an American in her early 30s) could have used a quick refresher/primer. less

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