Red Love - The Story of an East German Family

Winner of the European Book Prize

“Altogether extraordinary.” —The Los Angeles Review of Books
“Family memoirs don’t come wittier than this little marvel.” —Irish Times
“Beautiful and supremely touching.” —Sunday Telegraph,Book of the Week
 
Following three generations of German Jews, this “absolutely enthralling” family memoir of life in the GDR during and after World War II reveals what held East Germany together—and what tore it apart (The New York Times Book Review)
 
Now, married with two children and the Wall a distant memory, Maxim decides to find the answers to the questions he couldn''t ask. Why did his parents, once passionately in love, grow apart? Why did his father become so angry, and his mother quit her career in journalism? And why did his grandfather Gerhard, the Socialist war hero, turn into a