Date: 23 February 2012
6-8pm at Goethe Institut - Nairobi
The public reading series “Stories Spoken” is dedicated to introducing contemporary German literature in English translation to the Kenyan audience.
Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west in a provincial German railway station in 1945, Helene has brought her seven-year-old son with her. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of the war years, she abandons him at the station platform and never returns.
This is a tale of hope, loneliness and love; of a life lived in terrible times; the story of a family, an era, and a fascinating woman.
Excerpts from the novel will be read in English and German by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo and Susan Nadolny respectively.
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