Back home - why?
1st Edition
Published on 2. July 2024
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Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-3-931140-46-5 (ISBN)
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The Second World War is over. Eva, the protagonist of the epistolary novel "Back home - why?" is one of the women whose husband has come home from the war and she is unable to oppose him in any way. Unable to cope with his violence and cruelty she confides in her diary. Always striving to keep up the facade for her children and to excuse the strange behaviour of their father, she writes freely in her diary about the disgust and the fear she feels. These diary entries are interrupted by letters to her friend Lilli, in which the author recalls Eva's previous, happy life. Almost unnoticeably Eva's diary entries come together with her letters at the end of World War II to merge into a tragic final chord.
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Frank Salewski was born in 1967 in Schenefeld (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany). After completing an apprenticeship as an electrician, the author worked for two years as an electrical mechanic for Lufthansa. He then, as a 23 year old, went back to grammar school and spent his time in the midst of 15-17 year olds. After completing his Abitur (German A-Levels) and reading history and politics at university he completed two years as a student teacher in Braunschweig. His return to Bremen followed and he worked for seven years at a special school for children with behavioural problems. The author has been teaching at a secondary school which focuses on upper secondary education since 2009.
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