# Back to Back

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- Authors: [Julia Franck](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-franck)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9957-225-1
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2014-11-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The moving story of a brother and a sister caught in the tide of the Cold War Käthe is a Jewish sculptor living in East Berlin. A survivor of the Nazi era, she is a fervent socialist who has been using her political connections to secure more significant commissions. Devoted entirely to success, she is a cruel and abrasive mother to her children. She barely acknowledges Ella’s vulnerable loneliness and Thomas’s quiet aspirations, and her hard-nosed brutality forces her children to build an imaginary world as a shelter from the coldness that surrounds them. As the Berlin Wall goes up, dreams are shattered, lives fall apart and this dark fairytale of East Germany unfolds.