The Blindness of the Heart

Julia Franck · 2007 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

In 1945 a woman abandons her seven-year-old son on a railway platform in Stettin. The novel then goes back through her life from the First World War and the Weimar years to ask how she came to that act. It brought a German reckoning with the wartime generation to a wide audience.

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