# Siblings

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- Book: [Siblings](https://www.bookquiver.com/brigitte-reimann/siblings) ([Siblings.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/brigitte-reimann/siblings.md))
- Authors: [Brigitte Reimann](https://www.bookquiver.com/brigitte-reimann)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4155-584-2
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2024-02-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For 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. In 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.