After the Wall - by Jana Hensel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The bittersweet memoir of a young East German woman, searching for her country and herself, 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Jane Hensel was thirteen on Nobember 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Well fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its hokey comforts: the Young Pioneer youth groups, the cheerful Communist propaganda, and with the comforting knowledge that they lived in a Germany unblemished by an ugly Nazi past and a callous capitalist future. Suddenly East Germany disappeared, swallowed up by the West, and in its place was everything Jana and her friends had coveted for so long--designer clothes, Hollywood movies, supermarkets. Today they have all the right Western products and mannerisms. But, who are they?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Publishing News"<BR>"Thirteen when the Berlin Wall came down, Hensel describes what it was like for her generation, growing up with the certainties and strange comforts of a totalitarian regime which was suddenly swept away. Her memoir is of a childhood suddenly truncated, life changed forever as she and many like her try to absorb all the experiences they had missed, behind the wall."<br><br>"The International Herald Tribune"<BR>"[Jana Hensel] shines a fascinating light on the social and emotional consequences as the euphoria dissipated and was slowly replaced by a sense of disenfranchisement, disorientation and confusion... Surprisingly for someone who makes her living as a journalist... her prose is simple and at times almost guileless. Yet far from detracting form her story, this quality actually enhances the honesty and integrity that runs through her fascinating narration of a changing world."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jana Hensel</b> was born in Leipzig, East Germany, in 1976. She is currently a freelance journalist living in Berlin. <i>After the Wall</i>, published in German under the title Zonenkinder, was a major bestseller in Germany. <p/><b>Jefferson Chase</b> has previously translated <i>The Culture of Defeat</i> by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and <i>Death in Venice and Other Stories</i> by Thomas Mann. A journalist and writer, he lives in Berlin.
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