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9780374269357, titled "City of Angels Or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud: Or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud / a Novel" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 5, 2013, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9780374534295, titled "City of Angels: Or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud" | Italian edition edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 18, 2014), cover price $15.00

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9780776607870 | Univ of Ottawa Pr, January 26, 2013, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Book by Wolf, Christa

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9780884368830 | Emc Pub, June 1, 1980, cover price $11.93 | About this edition: Book by Wolf, Christa

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Product Description: Book by Wolf, Christa

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9788483060902 | Debate Editorial, June 30, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Book by Wolf, Christa
9780385518574 | Nan a Talese, March 17, 1998, cover price $15.00

Paperback:

9781933372228 | Europa Editions Inc, January 22, 2007, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: SUFFERING SEVERE abdominal pain, a woman is rushed to the emergency room of a decrepit urban hospital. Her soaring temperature, her deepening distress, her body's resistance to medicine all confound her doctors, who operate repeatedly...read more

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9781567922677 | David R Godine Pub, March 15, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: SUFFERING SEVERE abdominal pain, a woman is rushed to the emergency room of a decrepit urban hospital.

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Product Description: La heroína anónima de esta narración sufre en carne propia una crisis existencial: el quiebre de una época, el fin de la República Democrática Alemana. Una enfermedad la acerca a los límites de la muerte y las razones no parecen ser solamente corporales...read more

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9788481094558 | Galaxia Gutenberg, June 30, 2003, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: La heroína anónima de esta narración sufre en carne propia una crisis existencial: el quiebre de una época, el fin de la República Democrática Alemana.

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An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780374100469 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away.

Paperback:

9780226905068 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 29, 2001, cover price $20.00
9780374522544 | Noonday Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: An East German writer is captivated by the healing and the destructive capabilities of technology, as she contemplates the medical knowledge that can save her brother's life and the devastation wrought by the Chernobyl disaster

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Product Description: Parting from Phantoms is a window into the soul of the most prominent writer of the German Democratic Republic and its most famous export, Christa Wolf. The essays, diary entries, and letters in this book document four agonizing years in Wolf's personal history and paint a vivid portrait of the cultural and political situation in the former German Democratic Republic...read more

Hardcover:

9780226904962 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of Wolf's essays, diary entries, notes, transcripts of conversations, and experimental writings

Paperback:

9780226905037 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Parting from Phantoms is a window into the soul of the most prominent writer of the German Democratic Republic and its most famous export, Christa Wolf.

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Product Description: This volume brings together the two most important women writers of postwar German literature: Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) and Christa Wolf (b. 1929). Both grew up during the National Socialist era, and in their adult lives have remained critical of their respective societies' failure to confront the history of this era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780826409560 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, September 1, 1998, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together the two most important women writers of postwar German literature: Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) and Christa Wolf (b.

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A new fictional exploration of Medea chronicles the life and times of the notorious woman of Greek mythic tragedy, who becomes involved in a brutal political battle and, scorned by her husband, the hero Jason, sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage.

Hardcover:

9780385490603 | Doubleday, April 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A fictional chronicle of the life and times of Medea, the notorious woman of Greek mythic tragedy, who becomes involved in a brutal political battle, and, scorned by her husband, the hero Jason, sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage

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Paperback:

9780860016816 | Gardners Books, December 31, 1995, cover price $13.05

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Product Description: Spanning the past three decades, these essays focus on the roles of the writer and literature today. In the first half of this series of witty, probing essays on reading and writing, Wolf examines the individual's, in particular the writer's, relationship to society...read more

Hardcover:

9780374123024 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1993, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Essays deal with reading, writing, literary influence, other writers, including Thomas Mann, Max Frisch, and Karoline von Gunderrode, and the end of the German Democratic Republic

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9780226904948 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 8, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Spanning the past three decades, these essays focus on the roles of the writer and literature today.

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Product Description: What Remains collects Christa Wolf's short fiction, from early work in the sixties to the widely debated title story, first published in Germany in 1990. Addressing a wide range of topics, from sexual politics to the nature of memory, these powerful and often very personal stories offer a fascinating introduction to Wolf's work...read more

Paperback:

9780226904955 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1995), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: What Remains collects Christa Wolf's short fiction, from early work in the sixties to the widely debated title story, first published in Germany in 1990.

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A collection of short stories attempts to balance reality and imagination by probing the memories of such complex characters as Max, the pet cat of an idealistic psychology professor, and an East German writer under the scrutiny of the secret police

Hardcover:

9780374288884 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories attempts to balance reality and imagination by probing the memories of such complex characters as Max, the pet cat of an idealistic psychology professor, and an East German writer under the scrutiny of the secret police

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A recreation of the myth of Cassandra, journeying to her foreseen death and reflecting on her own history, is accompanied by essays that touch on such diverse issues as nuclear war and the role of women, linking them to the interpretation of Cassandra

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9780374519049 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1988, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A recreation of the myth of Cassandra, journeying to her foreseen death and reflecting on her own history, is accompanied by essays that touch on such diverse issues as nuclear war and the role of women, linking them to the interpretation of Cassandra

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Returning to her native town in East Germany forty years later, accompanied by her inquisitive and sometimes demanding daughter, Wolf attempts to recapture her past and to clarify memories of growing up in Nazi Germany

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9780374518448 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1984, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Returning to her native town in East Germany forty years later, accompanied by her inquisitive and sometimes demanding daughter, Wolf attempts to recapture her past and to clarify memories of growing up in Nazi Germany

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A recreation of the myth of Cassandra, journeying to her foreseen death and reflecting on her own history, is accompanied by essays that touch on such diverse issues as nuclear war and the role of women, linking them to the interpretation of Cassandra

Hardcover:

9780374119560 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1984, cover price $17.45 | About this edition: A recreation of the myth of Cassandra, journeying to her foreseen death and reflecting on her own history, is accompanied by essays that touch on such diverse issues as nuclear war and the role of women, linking them to the interpretation of Cassandra

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Dramatizes a hypothetical meeting between two early-nineteenth-century German poets, who later both committed suicide

Hardcover:

9780374222987 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1982, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Dramatizes a hypothetical meeting between two early-nineteenth-century German poets, who later both committed suicide

Paperback:

9780374517755 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1983, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Dramatizes a hypothetical meeting between two early-nineteenth-century German poets, who later both committed suicide

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A young, sensitive woman tries to find freedom and self-realization in a socialist society

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9780374515348 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1979, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A young, sensitive woman tries to find freedom and self-realization in a socialist society

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