Brecht's Mistress

Jacques-Pierre Amette · 2003 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

In East Berlin in the early years of the German Democratic Republic, a young actress is set by the secret police to watch Bertolt Brecht. She becomes both his lover and an informant, and cannot keep the two roles apart. Amette's Goncourt winner sets private loyalty against the machinery of a state that wanted its great playwright watched.

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