After Midnight - Irmgard Keun Peter Zeeman thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries

thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed

Narrated by a country girl from the north

the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall

and is one of her most unsettling and compelling works

exploring the continent in the heyday of international rail travel

After Midnight - Irmgard Keun Peter Zeeman thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuriesNineteen year old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What's more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment, as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had fled the Nazi regime, Irmgard