{"product_id":"siblings-by-brigitte-reimann-9780241555835","title":"Siblings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first English translation of this stirring novel of idealist loyalty and sibling love, by one of East Germany's most important writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Elisabeth, a young painter, the GDR is her generation's chance to build an 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn prose as bold as a scarlet paint stroke, Brigitte Reimann battles with the clash of idealism and suppression, familial loyalty and desire. This fervid, ground-breaking novel, written when Reimann was only twenty-seven, remains one of the cult classics of East German literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46298537918700,"sku":"9780241555835","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27357683482273.jpg?v=1743035224","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/siblings-by-brigitte-reimann-9780241555835","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}