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The Communist's Daughter
- Author
- Aroa Moreno Durán
- Narrator
- Nathalie Buscombe
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 4 February 2021
- Run Time
- 4 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Winner of the Premio Ojo Crítico
Katia has spent her childhood in the eastern shadow of the Berlin Wall. For her father, refugee of the civil war in Spain, the communist side of Germany represents everything he fought and suffered for. Katia knows no other way of life, until a chance encounter with a young man from the West leaves her to wonder what the other side might offer. It's only after she's made the perilous journey that Katia understands all she has left behind, and years until she will finally know the devastating consequences it had on her family.
Translated for the first time in English, this exquisite and powerful novel punches right to the heart of how one choice can change a whole future.
'A perfect novel' Almudena Grandes
(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Critics Review
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[I was] completely transported to communist East Berlin and drawn into the lives and fates of Katia and her family, so sparely and yet vividly told. . . I admired it immensely
Clare Chambers
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Aroa Moreno Durán writes with a rare sensitivity about the unconsidered consequences of giving everything up for love
Claire Fuller
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A moving novel
Grazia
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Beautifully written, powerfully realised. This is a novel that both makes you think and touches the heart
Kate Hamer
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A fascinating story of personal and political uprootedness. . . written with the delicacy that touches the reader's heart
Manuel Vilas
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A perfect novel
Almudena Grandes
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Details
- Author
- Aroa Moreno Durán
- Narrator
- Nathalie Buscombe
- Duration
- 4 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 February 2021
- ISBN
- 9781472268945
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Fiction in translation, Family life fiction / Stories about family
Synopsis
'A fascinating story of personal and political uprootedness. . . written with the delicacy that touches the reader's heart' Manuel VilasWinner of the Premio Ojo CríticoKatia has spent her childhood in the eastern shadow of the Berlin Wall. For her father, refugee of the civil war in Spain, the communist side of Germany represents everything he fought and suffered for. Katia knows no other way of life, until a chance encounter with a young man from the West leaves her to wonder what the other side might offer. It's only after she's made the perilous journey that Katia understands all she has left behind, and years until she will finally know the devastating consequences it had on her family. Translated for the first time in English, this exquisite and powerful novel punches right to the heart of how one choice can change a whole future.'A perfect novel' Almudena Grandes(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
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