Mauersegler. Ein Haus in Berlin 1989

Berlin-Trilogie #3

by Waldtraut Lewin

Berlin im Jahr 1989: Die Schwestern Karol und Kordula begegnen sich am 9. November zum ersten Mal. Die Mauer, die Berlin teilte, teilte auch ihr Haus. Gemeinsam decken sie ihre Familiengeschichte auf.

Genres: Young Adult, Historical, German Literature

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Waldtraut Lewin, born in 1937, studied German, Latin, and dramatics in Berlin. She then worked for several years as the artistic director of the theater in Halle, East Germany. In 1973 she became the scenario editor of the theater in Rostock and started writing. Since 1978, she has published a great number of books for children and juveniles that have won national acclaim. Today, Waldtraut Lewin lives in Berlin.

Reviews

[Justine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Das war leider ja ganz großer Quatsch. Und alle Personen irgendwie Idioten, das ist auch anstrengend. Trotzdem würde der Trilogie ohne etwas fehlen ...

[Jennie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book without realizing that it was part three of a trilogy (set in different time periods, with different protagonists, but linked through the history of one particular house), and so I read it without having read the other two. So it's possible that several things would have been less confusing if I had read the other two first. As it was, though, I found a few things extremely hard to understand. Then again, the protagonist Karol is as confused as the reader is for most of the book, so that's probably just a matter of the magical realism aspects of the story. All in all, it was a decent read, and worth spending the relatively short time it takes to get through a 190-page novel.

[RatCreature · Rating 1 out of 5]

Leider ist der letzte Teil der Trilogie ins Merkwürdige abgedriftet, mit paranormalen Wahrnehmungen, Visionen von Verstorbenen, mystischen Verbindungen zwischen Zwillingen und dergl. die für mich überhaupt nicht ins Genre passen.