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Paula

Author(s): Sandra Hoffmann, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)

Location(s): Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria

Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation

Era(s): Modern

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Sandra Hoffmann‘s Paula is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer’s relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann asks: What kind of person, what kind of writer, does this environment produce?

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Author: Tina Hartas

Another title from V & Q Books, who specialise in ‘remarkable writing from Germany‘. Paula is the grandmother in this story, who has been part of the author’s childhood and early adulthood until she...

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