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Kokoschka’s Doll

Kokoschka’s Doll
  • Author(s): Afonso Cruz
  • Location(s): Dresden, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

At the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice. But it doesn’t belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice of God, as he comes to believe. It...

The Tower

The Tower
  • Author(s): Uwe Tellkamp
  • Location(s): Dresden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1989

In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With...

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Author(s): Kurt Vonnegut
  • Location(s): Dresden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller – these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centring...

An Elephant in the Garden

An Elephant in the Garden
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo
  • Location(s): Dresden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Children
  • Era(s): WW2

Dresden, 1945. Elizabeth and Karli’s mother works at the zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. Then the zoo director tells her that the dangerous animals – including the elephants – must be shot before...

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