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A Fine Couple
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A Fine Couple
Herta and Georg were deeply in love in East Germany. Georg fled to the West, followed two days later by Herta and their young son. Somehow they became estranged in the West, although never completely, and their son contemplates their history as he cleans out their house.
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The story of the paradoxical relationship of two parents.
As he clears out his parents’ house, Philipp, a photographer, comes across an object that has played a major role in his parents’ lives. Herta and Georg made a fine couple when they first met. Their son imagines the early days of their relationship and remembers how his father was forced to flee across the inner-German border to the West.
When Herta and Philipp joined him a few days later, this could have signaled the start of a new era of happiness, but the seeds of their separation had already been sown. In gentle, probing prose, Gert Loschütz describes how Philipp gradually unravels the paradoxical nature of his parents’ relationship: it was love that destroyed their love.
To his astonishment, Philipp discovers that Herta and Georg had been in contact all those years in a way they kept secret even from one another.
A Fine Couple by Simon Pare and Gert Loschütz delves into this intricate and compelling narrative.
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ISBN: 9781803090665
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 24 February 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 162.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 390g
Pages: 248
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About the Author
Gert Loschütz is a prolific German writer who lives in Berlin. Simon Pare is a translator of French and German who lives in Paris.
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