Summer on the Cold War Planet
In 1989, the summer before the Berlin Wall collapsed, a pregnant, young American art historian, is drawn back to Berlin, seeking the truth about the disappearance of her husband. There, she meets an exiled East German artist whose tormented life and stories of the Greek mystics make him both forbidding and irresistible. In this novel of conflicting allegiances played out between Cold War Berlin and the stark beauty of the Cycladic islands, tourists, natives, and refugees circle one another warily, their fates hanging on the question of which trusts if any, will remain inviolate.
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Summer on the Cold War Planet
In 1989, the summer before the Berlin Wall collapsed, a pregnant, young American art historian, is drawn back to Berlin, seeking the truth about the disappearance of her husband. There, she meets an exiled East German artist whose tormented life and stories of the Greek mystics make him both forbidding and irresistible. In this novel of conflicting allegiances played out between Cold War Berlin and the stark beauty of the Cycladic islands, tourists, natives, and refugees circle one another warily, their fates hanging on the question of which trusts if any, will remain inviolate.
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by Paula Closson Buck
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Summer on the Cold War Planet

Summer on the Cold War Planet

by Paula Closson Buck

Overview

In 1989, the summer before the Berlin Wall collapsed, a pregnant, young American art historian, is drawn back to Berlin, seeking the truth about the disappearance of her husband. There, she meets an exiled East German artist whose tormented life and stories of the Greek mystics make him both forbidding and irresistible. In this novel of conflicting allegiances played out between Cold War Berlin and the stark beauty of the Cycladic islands, tourists, natives, and refugees circle one another warily, their fates hanging on the question of which trusts if any, will remain inviolate.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940150925533
Publisher: Fomite
Publication date: 09/03/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 356
File size: 723 KB

About the Author

Paula Closson Buck is the author of two books of poems from LSU Press. Her stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Southern Review. A former editor of West Branch, she directs the creative writing program at Bucknell University and has lived briefly in both Berlin and the Greek islands.
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