The Valley of Unknowing

The Valley of Unknowing
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780393239447
ISBN-13 : 0393239446
Rating : 4/5 (446 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Valley of Unknowing by : Philip Sington

Download or read book The Valley of Unknowing written by Philip Sington and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable…Superbly anchored in place and time…[A] brilliant, evocative and accurate novel.”—The Times (London) In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, author of a single world-famous novel written twenty years earlier, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West. But Theresa has also caught the eye of a cocky young scriptwriter who delights in satirizing Krug’s work. Asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript, Bruno is disturbed to find that the author is none other than his rival. Disconcertingly, the book is good—very good. But there is hope for the older man: the unwelcome masterpiece is dangerously political. Krug decides that if his affair with Theresa is to prove more than a fling, he must employ a small deception. But in the Workers’ and Peasants’ State, knowing the deceiver from the deceived, the betrayer from the betrayed, isn’t just difficult: it is a matter of life and death. Now the celebrated author and secret Stasi informer is ready to confess… The Valley of Unknowing is both a moving and entertaining love story and a seductive thriller, one that pits the past against the future, commerce against creativity, and art against life.


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