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The Communist’s Daughter

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'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

Critics Review

[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
Clare Chambers
Aroa Moreno Durán writes with a rare sensitivity about the unconsidered consequences of giving everything up for love
Claire Fuller
A moving novel
Grazia
Beautifully written, powerfully realised. This is a novel that both makes you think and touches the heart
Kate Hamer
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
Author Aroa Moreno Durán
Narrator Nathalie Buscombe
Duration 4 hours and 40 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781472268945
Format Audiobook
Publisher Headline
Genre Family life fiction, Fiction in translation, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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