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Goodreads asked Britta Böhler:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Britta Böhler I became a Dutch citizen in 2007 and I was thinking a lot about the fact what it meant to be 'German' without having a German passport anymore. At the same time I was reading Thomas Mann's diaries and his experience of being an immigrant sparked the idea for the book.

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