No Room at the Top
Michael Hofmann: Brigitte Reimann’s ‘Siblings’, 2 March 2023
Siblings
by Brigitte Reimann, translated by Lucy Jones.
Penguin, 133 pp., £12.99, February,978 0 241 55583 5 Show More
by Brigitte Reimann, translated by Lucy Jones.
Penguin, 133 pp., £12.99, February,
“... his poems. A similar thing might be said about the diaries and novels of the East German writer Brigitte Reimann, born in 1933. Siblings (1963), given a fluent but flawed translation by Lucy Jones, is the first of her novels to be published in English, after the two volumes of her diaries that survived: I Have No Regrets: Diaries, 1955-63 (also ... ”
