An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis.
- ISBN10 0226905063
- ISBN13 9780226905068
- Publish Date 29 May 2001 (first published 31 December 1991)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition Univ of Chicago PR ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 114
- Language English