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<p>In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight years.</p><p>Kuczynski&rsquo;s fascinating memoir relates her experiences of life in East Germany as a student, a fledgling academic philosopher, an independent writer, and, above all, as a woman. Though she was never a true believer in Communism, Rita gained entry into the circles of the East German intellectual elite through her husband Thomas Kuczynski. There, in the privileged world that she calls &ldquo;the gardens of the nomenklatura,&rdquo; she saw first-hand the contradictions at the heart of life for the East German intelligentsia.</p><p>Published in English for the very first time twenty-six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, <em>Wall Flower</em> offers a rare &ndash; and critical &ndash; look at life among the East German elite. Told with wry wit and considerable candor, Kuczynski&rsquo;s story offers a fascinating perspective on the rise and fall of East Germany.

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Author

Kuczynski, Rita ;Steinhoff, Anthony J. (editor)

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442616363

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Memoir, History