The Sleep of the Righteous

Wolfgang Hilbig · 2002 CE · Short Story · German · Contemporary

A collection of stories set in and around the polluted industrial landscape of East Germany that Hilbig came from, with narrators who work, write and watch their own surveillance. Isabel Fargo Cole's English translation appeared in 2015. Hilbig is the principal prose voice of the GDR's unofficial literature.

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