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The common thread running through the twelve stories of this collection is their basis on subsidiary characters in Eva’s novel Silent Shadows. Mostly, the stories are snapshots of life in the former GDR or afford glimpses into the re-united Germany, and in this they are unashamedly political. But, above all, each story is about the trials and tribulations of the human condition.
Despite the characters’ previous inclusion in her novel, each of their stories is well able to stand alone – though having read Silent Shadows adds another dimension to the collection.
The stories are arranged in such a way that the first five of ‘Bloc I’ share a setting in the pre-Berlin Wall days of 1960 and 1961. The first story of ‘Bloc II’ comes to an end in 1963, while the other four find their conclusions in post-1989 Germany. The two ‘Bloc III’ stories take the reader to Kuala Lumpur and the Malay rainforest, and to London.
Welcome to Silentshadows, a showcase for the books of Eva Maria Knabenbauer and Vernon Bridges. Eva’s collection of short stories, Echoes, is published by Windhound Press.
Echoes
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Silent Shadows
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