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Anniversaries, Volume 2:From a Year In the Life Of Gesine Cresspahl, april 1968–august 1968
[Paperback - 2021]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Historical Fiction
Additional Category: Contemporary Fiction - Literary Fiction
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9781681375571 | Pages: 800
Shipping Weight: .958 | Dimensions: 5.78 x 1.62 x 8.51 inches

The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics.

Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20, 1968. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, even as the news of the Prague Spring has awakened Gesine’s long-dashed hopes that socialism could be a humanism. Meanwhile, her boss at the bank has his own ideas about Czechoslovakia, and Gesine faces the prospect of having to move there for work. 

Continuing the story of her past from Anniversaries, Volume 1, Gesine describes the Soviet occupation of her hometown, Jerichow, where her father was installed as mayor and ended up in a brutal prison camp. Gesine herself charts a rebellious course through school, ever more bitterly conscious of the moral ugliness of life behind the Iron Curtain. As the year of the novel comes to its end, past and present converge and the novel circles back to its beginnings: Gesine tells Marie about her father, Jakob, dead before she was born, about leaving East Germany, and, as history threatens to take them away from New York, about the beginning of their life together in the city that they have both come to love.

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