DW Arts and Culture November 5, 2019 06:52:00
As novel kozo takes place in that summer of 1989 when nobody expected such a world changing event a young student tries to flee his gray everyday existence in the g.d.r. and his own personal trauma and the celebrated debut won the german book prize back in 2014 and it's up next in our series 100 german streets. everything about just running away starting over leaving everything behind what about people who lived in east germany they weren't allowed to leave as one of them for a while he thinks about jumping off a ladder or out of a window. then he gets another idea. and. silos book takes place...