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01986aam a2200349Ia 4500 001 B2ECC2C46BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151006010103 008 131004s2014 enk 000 f eng d 010 $a 2014431216 020 $a 0857421867 020 $a 9780857421869 035 $a (OCoLC)859583564 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d DKAGE $d YDXCP $d CUV $d COO $d OKU $d CDX $d ORX $d UAB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d DLC $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 082 04 $a 833.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Wolf, Christa, $e author. 240 10 $a August. $l English 245 10 $a August / $c Christa Wolf ; translated by Katy Derbyshire. 260 $a London ; $b Seagull Books, $c 2014. 300 $a 74 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a German list 520 $a Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contained veiled criticisms of the Communist regime which landed her on government watch lists. Her past continued to permeate her work and her life, as she said, "You can only fight sorrow when you look it in the eye." August is Christa Wolf's last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary gift to her husband. In it, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946, a real life event that was the inspiration for the closing scenes of her 1976 novel Patterns of Childhood. 650 0 $a Hospital patients $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Hospital patients. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00961005 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 700 1 $a Derbyshire, Katy, $e translator. 830 0 $a German list. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171228020023.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826094417.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B2ECC2C46BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search