The Communists Daughter, Aroa Moreno Duran
The Communists Daughter, Aroa Moreno Duran
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The Communist's Daughter
A 'remarkably powerful' novel set in East Berlin

Author: Aroa Moreno Durán

Narrator: Nathalie Buscombe

Unabridged: 4 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tinder Press

Published: 02/04/2021


Synopsis

'A fascinating story of personal and political uprootedness. . . written with the delicacy that touches the reader's heart' Manuel Vilas

Winner of the Premio Ojo Crítico

Katia has spent her childhood in the eastern shadow of the Berlin Wall. For her father, refugee of the civil war in Spain, the communist side of Germany represents everything he fought and suffered for. Katia knows no other way of life, until a chance encounter with a young man from the West leaves her to wonder what the other side might offer. It's only after she's made the perilous journey that Katia understands all she has left behind, and years until she will finally know the devastating consequences it had on her family.

Translated for the first time in English, this exquisite and powerful novel punches right to the heart of how one choice can change a whole future.

'A perfect novel' Almudena Grandes

(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

Reviews

Goodreads review by Great-O-Khan on November 04, 2022

Katia wohnt mit Mutter, Vater und Schwester nach der Flucht aus Spanien in Berlin in einer zu kleinen und zu kalten Wohnung. Die Familie ist vor dem Franco-Regime geflüchtet. Das Buch setzt 1956 ein und endet 1992. Es folgen kurze Kapitel mit großen Zeitsprüngen. Die Kapitel werden ähnlich wie Brief......more

Goodreads review by Álvaro on November 21, 2020

Não foi tão fácil entrar nesta história como eu previa. Sem perceber bem porquê (a escrita é excelente, o enredo era promissor) estava a custar avançar. Parecia que me contrariava de cada vez que abria o livro. Até que o entendi. Até à decisão, aquela decisão. E a partir daí a história é um sem conseg......more

Goodreads review by jpm on June 30, 2020

Tocca corde nascoste la delicata narrazione della vicenda di Katia, figlia di comunisti spagnoli esuli nella Ddr, che per un uomo decide di lasciare la sua famiglia, i sui studi, i suoi amici e oltrepassare il muro che a Berlino separava le due Germanie. Katia pensava di lasciare un paese opprimente......more

Goodreads review by M on October 30, 2020

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Goodreads review by Vendedor de rápida on February 06, 2018

Novela de memoria histórica inusual en la narrativa española por estar ambientada en el exilio español en la Alemania socialista. La fuerza del relato se ve lastrada por la personalidad de la protagonista, que tiene un comportamiento pasivo quizás en exceso, puede que también para intensificar su mi......more


Quotes

[I was] completely transported to communist East Berlin and drawn into the lives and fates of Katia and her family, so sparely and yet vividly told. . . I admired it immensely

Aroa Moreno Durán writes with a rare sensitivity about the unconsidered consequences of giving everything up for love

A moving novel Grazia

Beautifully written, powerfully realised. This is a novel that both makes you think and touches the heart

A fascinating story of personal and political uprootedness. . . written with the delicacy that touches the reader's heart Manuel Vilas

A perfect novel Almudena Grandes