{"product_id":"9780708316146","title":"Christoph Hein","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristoph Hein is widely regarded as one of the most important authors to emerge from the former GDR. He began his career as a dramatist in the 1970s, and later produced some of the most acclaimed prose fiction of the GDR in the 1980s. Hein is also a prolific essayist and lecturer whose contributions to debates on GDR culture before the \u003ci\u003eWende\u003c\/i\u003e, and on the future of the united Germany, are widely recognized. He is president of the newly unified German PEN Centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristoph Hein\u003c\/i\u003e follows the pattern set by earlier volumes in the series, opening with a previously unpublished piece by Hein, a biography of the author, and a interview conducted during Hein’s stay in Swansea in March 1998. The volume includes five articles by British and German academics, as well as a contribution by Hein’s \u003ci\u003eLektorin\u003c\/i\u003e at Aufbau-Verlag, who offers an insight into the composition of Hein’s most recent novel \u003ci\u003eVon allem Anfang an\u003c\/i\u003e (1997). The volume ends with the most comprehensive bibliography on Christoph Hein to be published on 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014306742512,"sku":"9780708316146","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780708316146_p0.jpg?v=1763621998","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780708316146","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}