Arts.21 | Sibylle Lewitscharoffs great family novel

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Channel: DW News · 2009 · Entertainment

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Sibylle Lewitscharoff is the daughter of a Bulgarian who emigrated to Stuttgart and there comitted suicide. First she was an accountant,then a writer. Now - at the age of 55 - she's written a book which has left most critics speechless. Rarely has a family trauma and journey into the land of one's forefathers been written with such bitterness,and been so funny and clever. ARTS.21 met the author in her home city,Berlin.

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