In The Shadow-Boxing Woman, a novel from German writer Inka Parei, a decaying apartment building in post-Wall Berlin is home to Hell, a young woman with a passion for martial arts. When Hell’s neighbor disappears she sets out across the city in search of the woman. In the course of her quest, she falls in love with a bank robber, confronts her own dark memories, and ends up saving more than just her missing neighbor.
What is on the surface a crime novel is actually a haunting dual portrait of a city and a woman caught up in times of change and transition. This debut novel in English combines Parei’s tight prose with a compulsive delight in detail that dynamically evokes many lost and overlooked corners of Berlin.
- ISBN10 0857425919
- ISBN13 9780857425911
- Publish Date 25 September 2018 (first published 11 February 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 186
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780857425911