Siblings - Brigitte Reimann children by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata

by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata

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a clued-in hybrid of political commentary

remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life

Siblings - Brigitte Reimann children by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth a young painter the GDR is her generations chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of stricture and oppression. Separating them is the ever wider chasm of the Party line; over them loom the twin spectres of opportunity and fear, and the shadow of their defector brother Konrad. In prose as bold as a scarlet paint stroke,