The Valley of Unknowing
  • Published:
    Dec-2012 (Hardcover)
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  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    304
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In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, author of a single world-famous novel written twenty years earlier, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West. But Theresa has also caught the eye of a cocky young scriptwriter who delights in satirizing Krug's work.

Asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript, Bruno is disturbed to find that the author is none other than his rival. Disconcertingly, the book is good -- very good. But there is hope for the older man: the unwelcome masterpiece is dangerously political. Krug decides that if his affair with Theresa is to prove more than a fling, he must employ a small deception. But in the Workers' and Peasants' State, knowing the deceiver from the deceived, the betrayer from the betrayed, isn't just difficult: it is a matter of life and death. Now the celebrated author and secret Stasi informer is ready to confess…

The Valley of Unknowing is both a moving and entertaining love story and a seductive thriller, one that pits the past against the future, commerce against creativity, and art against life.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Dec-2012
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0393239330
    • ISBN13: 9780393239331
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    • Apr-2012
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1846552915
    • ISBN13: 9781846552915
    •  
    • Dec-2012
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Dec-2012
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0393239446
    • ISBN13: 9780393239447
    •  
    • Dec-2012
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1446484858
    • ISBN13: 9781446484852



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