In Times of Fading Light, Eugene Ruge

'Already hailed as a Cold War classic.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year'Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.' Anna Funder, author of StasilandInternational bestseller and Winner of the German Book PrizeA sweeping story of one family over four generations in East Germany: the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime.In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge is a sweeping story of one family over fifty years and four generations in East Germany.Already hailed as a Cold War classic. (Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year)An ingenious examination of ordinary life in the GDR. (Sean O'Brien, TLS Books of the Year)Ruge's award-winning debut novel charts half a century of East German history through the story of appartchik Wilhelm Powileit. This family saga captures in rich detail the realities of daily life in the German Democratic Republic, and evokes a melancholy sense of houses, countries, politic