On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, the paperback edition of the internationally best-selling portrait of an East German family
In Times of Fading Light
A Novel
- “Mr. Ruge’s novel is a pulsing, vibrant, thrillingly alive work, full of formal inventiveness, remarkable empathy and, above all, mordant and insightful wit.”—The New York Times
“An important, highly accomplished debut novel. . . . [In Times of Fading Light] is aptly named, for the reading feels as if we are working our way through a photograph album—vignettes about various members of this family—as the light in their lives grows dimmer. . . . To write the history of a country through the prism of a family is an enormous task, but Ruge has cut it up and somehow put the pieces together in a way that at first may seem confusing but later makes perfect sense. . . . This splendid, beautifully translated novel becomes richer as it acquires a logic of its own.”—The Boston Globe
“Powerful . . . Ruge has managed to weave the person into the political in a book that functions as an ethnography of a lost time as much as it does a novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Powerful . . . Ruge has managed to weave the person into the political in a book that functions as an ethnography of a lost time as much as it does a novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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About the Author
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Praise
- “After reading and rereading we realize how carefully Ruge has placed each part of the puzzle; this splendid, beautifully translated novel becomes richer as it acquires a logic of its own.”—The Boston Globe
- “Impressive. . . . Ruge has managed to weave the personal into the political in a book that functions as an ethnography of a lost time as much as it does a novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle
- “A shrewd and very knowing novel, slippery with the truth and packed tight with compressed tension, and written by a talented new voice.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
