Secrets and spies, love and tragedy in Stasi East Germany.
Brandenburg 1993: The Berlin Wall is down, the country is reunified and thirty-year-old school teacher Michael Ritter feels his life is falling apart. His wife has thrown him out, his new West German headmaster has fired him for being a socialist, former Party member and he is still clinging on to the wreckage of the state that shaped him. Disenfranchised and disenchanted, Michael heads home to care for his terminally ill mother.
Before she dies, she urges him to seek out an evangelical priest, Pastor Bruck, who is the only one who knows the truth about his father. When Michael eventually tracks him down, he is taken on a journey of dark discoveries, one which will shatter his foundations, but ultimately bring him hope to rebuild them.
- ISBN10 0755380851
- ISBN13 9780755380855
- Publish Date 5 January 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 May 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Review
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English